Re: Family Tree Maker 2008 - upgrade? discount?

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:44:25 GMT, Ye Old One <usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3 Sep 2007 22:16:42 GMT, Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@xxxxxxxxx> enriched
this group when s/he wrote:

The seller sets the terms.

ONLY if he sets them as part of the contract I make when I buy it. My
purchase is usually from a retailer, unless some special terms are
clearly brought to my attention BEFORE purchase, or if the software
company offer me a 100% refund, the terms of the license are
meaningless.

In other words, you feel you can steal it because you don't agree to the
license by...buying it? Wow. Just...wow.

Yeah people who would rather let other people pay for development of
something they want to leech the benefits from, often feel that way.

I'm more than happy to pay for things I use. I will not pay for the
right to try something. I would not buy a car without a test drive nor
would I buy a book without flipping through it. Would I but a suit
without trying it on unless I knew I could return it? So what makes
software so special that I have to part with money untested?

Because, people like you have more than a few developers from releasing
fully functional trialware. Not enough people pull their weight. Then,
software which isn't even offered as trialware, people steal it and then
have the balls to ask for support for it. I once wrote an inexpensive
program, the only copy protection was my trust in the users not to
deprive me of payment for my efforts. Rather far into the game, was a
rather tricky puzzle. I had more people ask me to get them unstuck,
than had paid for the game in the first place. So, I've stopped writing
software (and am making a very good living in a related field).

I wonder if you're one of the people who stole my work years ago.
Doesn't matter, I know your type.

Somehow, your money is more important than mine, or something. So. How
about you come and do whatever it is you do for me, for free, because I
don't feel like paying for it?

I quite often do "sample" work for customers in order to get new
customers. Otherwise I'm normally paid on completion to the customer's
satisfaction.

I'm not offering samples. Take it or leave it.

How would it be if I came round to your house and said "yes, I'll
paint you front room for you. Give me £400. What? You want to see the
quality of my work first? No, of course I will not show you or give
you contact details for other customers so you can check on me. You
get what I give you and have done with it." Well, doesn't work like
that does it?

Oddly enough, I'm sitting in a freshly painted room that I have not yet
been billed for.

Software companies are, these days, their own worst enemies. Most
software is way over priced, contains far to many bugs and requires
over-powered hardware just to get it to run at acceptable speeds. Time
they learned some better customer relations.

You're not a customer, you're a leech.

.

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