Hello Franz! On Monday, June 14, 2010 at 1:54:33 AM you wrote:
> What's happening here? The same cost-intensive upgrade routine as > with some other software manufacturers is planned? Actually RITLabs, with all shortcomings, already delivers quite well, though mainly under the guise of 'beta'. In the past people complained about paying anew whenever the company, quite arbitrary, decided they call the next version a major one. Since they already delivered the goods via beta or minor versions in the preceding major version number whinging was understandable. > btw: Does anyone like programs that are practically "loaned" for a given > time-window? First of all most subscription models for software are not for the program but for service and support, you don't 'borrow' a program, you buy past development plus an added value of future development. It's called an investment. Many programs in many fields are now good enough to last many users for a lifetime when it comes to features. Most programs don't even need much service and support apart from the odd security update [a little more than odd for browsers], hence a 1-year or 2-year subscription makes a lot of sense. Or you could go the Adobe way and pay hefty money every 18 months for a new major version - with only minor [security] updates in-between. -- Dierk Haasis [DH² Publishing] The Bat 4.2.36.1 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 Chat info upon request I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. [Galileo Galilei] ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.2.33.9 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
