On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Joseph Cooney <joseph.coo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Like many things in software development (and life) I think it's all about > managing expectations. By choosing the word they did in their initial > announcement red-gate set the expectation that there would continue to be a > free version of reflector in perpetuity, so some people (I think > understandably) feel a bit put-out when they don't meet that expectation. > Will I buy a copy of reflector when it's released? Sure. Am I happy about > having to keep track of reflector license keys, and not being able to assume > everyone has and uses reflector? Not so much. Do I look forward to having to > carefully scrutinize everything red-gate say in case of future > back-pedaling? No. For example in their most recent communique red-gate said > "Version 7 will be sold as a perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced > updates". How should I take that given their change of heart on the free > version?
Free can become not; perpetual can't stop being so, or else it wasn't in the first place. > Joseph > > -- > > w: http://jcooney.net > t: @josephcooney -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > Fancy a quantum lunch? http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
