Re: RiscPC & Kinetic

In message <7b63add84f.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Steve Potts <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <f8795d74f%Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <f2067ed74f.dougjwebb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]
What you get in the RISC OS 6 single user scheme is a snapshot of the
Select enhancements so why should I pay for Select updates and you be
given them for free?

[snip]

I am not asking for them for free, I merely want to pay for an up-to-date
product, not one that is already obsolete.

Graeme,

If you want the latest version of stuff you have to pay the going rate (and
actually select subscriptions are excellent value for money when you
consider the man hours which must be put in to develop them). If you're
not too bothered about the very latest, then you can opt to take a lesser
slice of what's available at a lower cost - this is all very standard stuff
across commerce in general and consumer electonics in particular.

How many other companies try and fob you off with last year's product at this
year's proces


The people whom subscribe to the Select Sceme are funding ongoing
development and as a result get the benefits of the very latest versions.

I understand all that and it is great for those for whom the OS is a hobby.
I'm not in that group, I am one of an apparently ever dwindling group of real
users who is only interested in a working computer system with which, amongst
other things, to conduct my business. I am really not interested with
playing with all the latest gimmicks, finding the bugs and downloading this
week's latest updates all the time.


As a way of letting people whom are unprepared to subscribe, reap some of
those benefits, RISCOS Ltd. have made a single user (snapshot) version
available of an older (but still very capable) version of RISC OS 6. Even
that version (6.06) is way ahead of 4.39. 6.10 improves on it further.

So where is the incentive for me to buy 6.06, I know it is already out of
date and if I have to keep swapping OS versions just to keep using
bog-standard software, frankly I can't be arsed.


At the end of the day it's your money and you choose whether or not to
spend it, but I believe you're missing out by not subscribing.


Given the machine is never going to do what I want in the way of more
advanced computing, eg proper image manipulation, web-browsing at more than
glacial speeds and so on, I actually see no point in the scheme.

Unfortunately I am now slowly working towards the day when this machine dies
and I go completely mad, I mean completely Mac. I might consider getting
VRPC but I'm not sure there's any real point in that other than it means I'll
be able to continue using !Personal Accounts and !Pipedream, the two best
bits of software I've ever bought.

--
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>
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