To be fair:
People have forgotten the point that you maintain bug
free backward
compatibility going back a long way and you don't force
people to
upgrade.
They have also forgotten the main point that for
all of us AB is an
educational, hobby business, business or employment
cost and compared
to other costs in those categories AB is peanuts
(trading has the
lowest overheads of any legal business that I know
off).
I agree you do spoil us.
I don't know of any other product
that I have purchased where I can
give the CEO an opinion, let alone try
to demand that a certain
feature be designed into the next model (all or
most succesful
businesses do carry out market research, using focus
groups, but none
that I know of do it across the board, day in, day out,
the way that
you do).
brian_z
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com,
"Tomasz Janeczko \(groups\)"
<groups@xxx> wrote:
>
>
Major upgrade is the upgrade that adds major number of new features.
>
Each our 0.01 beta is more "MAJOR" than major releases of other
T/A
softwares.
>
> Therefore it is more than justified to call 0.1,
MAJOR upgrade
especially considering the fact
> that AB version
number consists of THREE parts:
> X.WY.Z
>
> Where
>
X is incremented just when W generates carry over (9->0)
> W
increases with major release that is cumulative version of TEN
previous
> (beta) versions each containing a couple of NEW
features
> Y increases with each BETA that contains NEW FEATURES
>
Z increases with versions that contain only hot-fixes and bug-fixes
>
>
> You are just spoiled receiving FREE upgrades for FOUR years,
even
though
> I originally promised that 5x0.10 major release cycle
will span
only one year.
> It was my goodwill to add MORE new
features in each and every +0.10
increment.
>
> If I was
doing business "IT industry standard way" I would add ONE
new
feature
> per 0.10 upgrade. Instead you got a couple of new features
every
0.01 BETA.
>
> So our 0.10 is SUPER MAJOR release as
compared to "IT standard".
>
> Now $99 is a fee for 12 month
period if there are more 3 or more
than 3 0.1 releases
> during 12
month period. Other companies would charge you more than
that
> for
EACH upgrade.
>
> Frankly speaking I would love to purchase the
software that uses
> the same upgrade policy as AmiBroker, but I don't
find any (among
ones
> I am interested in). Everyone charges for
each and every upgrade
and the sums
> are much larger than
that.
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
>
amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
"original_nightstalker" <nightstalker@...>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com>
>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:21 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: RC1
telling me my reg has expired
>
>
> >
> >
Apologies - let me correct the misunderstanding. I didn't mean to
> >
imply that I HAD been paying $99 for every 12 months. But from
now
>
> on, according to the website, $99 is the upgrade fee for the next
12
> > months. In other words, to stay fully up to date, would
cost $99
per
> > year. At least, that's how I read the info on
the website.
> >
> > I'm not for one moment trying to imply
that Tomasz doesn't
deserve the
> > income - of course he does.
I've been a fervent AmiBroker user,
fan,
> > and recommender for
several years and will continue to do so.
> >
> > It's
just that we're starting to get into the realms of the Law of
> >
Diminishing Returns, where the outlay goes up disproportionately
to
> > the amount of new features that I actually need or would
use.
> >
> > I'm still very happy with my v5.09 beta - it
does everything I
use it
> > for without a hitch. So I'll simply
keep on using it.
> >
> > The version numbering is
something that I find a little
confusing -
> > I've been involved
in computers for over 35 years, and MAJOR
upgrades
> > usually
involve an increment in the number to the left of the
decimal
> >
point. Minor upgrades increase the number to the right of the
decimal
> > point. That has been the de facto standard for
version numbering
> > throughout the IT industry as I've known it
since the mid-1970s.
> > Hence my somewhat befuddled surprise that
5.10 was considered a
MAJOR
> > upgrade. I'd have called it
version 6 if that was the case.
Version
> > 5.10 would normally
be seen as an UPDATE rather than an UPGRADE -
if
> > you see what
I mean.
> >
> > Gee - I really hate to be picky - it's not
usually like me at
all ;)
> >
> > Hope that has
cleared up my statement about paying $99 per year -
> > referring to
the future from now on, rather than the past until
now.
> >
> > Regards, Pete, Brisbane, Australia.
> >
====================================
> >
> >
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com,
"dingo" <dingo@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Not trying to
beat you up about your decision but I seriously
doubt
> >
you've
> >> been having to pay for upgrades every 12 months. You
might want
to
> > revisit
> >> that.
> >>
> >> d
> >>
> >
> >
>
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