Hi Alexander, >> I use The Bat! since May '99 and for four years we got MAJOR >> enhancements for free. If some other company has produced the Bat, the >> very same program with the same feature set would be in version 4 or 5 >> and not 2.00.6. Believe me 1.60 was a major upgrade to 1.50 which was a >> major upgrade to 1.40 and so forth.
A> If that is so then what, in the name of everything that doesn't suck, A> would've been the problem to say "registered before 1.50 release = high A> update fee" while "registered before 1.60 release = moderate upgrade fee" A> and "registered after 1.60 release = lower upgrade fee? The rationale here I think is that it is a smaller jump from 1.6 to 2.0, and therefor you shouldn't pay as much? But this thinking is the reason that Microsoft NEVER releases any updates, short of bug fixes. Anything new is squirreled away for a couple of years, until a new version comes out. The point is that what you suggest would encourage that. Why bother releasing new features as minor updates if you people are going to then complain that 2.0 is not much different than 1.6? You are just going to shoot yourself in the pocketbook. Better to keep 1.0 out forever, release bug fixes as .01 and .02 revisions, and keep all the new features for 2.0. Then you can charge everyone 75% of the full price for the upgrade...<insert MS business plan here>. I believe it is Microsoft's way of doing business that sucks. Ritlabs, while not exactly scoring a 10, is doing what they can to make some money, which is difficult. I do agree that the 2-month cutoff is a bad idea. -- Caio, Christopher Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using The Bat! v2.00.6 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
