| [News] IOSPIRIT freezes its own AMIGA-developments | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 08-Mar-2004 11:53 GMT by Felix Schwarz | 69 comments
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Felix Schwarz, with immediate effect, freezes the development of
fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio and the IOUSB- and VHI-drivers. Medusa and
IBrowse are external developments and thus are not affected.
All products will stay in distribution. Whether the development will
be reactivated at a later point in time mainly depends on the further
economical and social development of the market and the profits made
with it.
The AMIGA-pages can be found at http://amiga.iospirit.de/ in the
future. Although www.iospirit.de currently still redirects to this
page, we nonetheless would be glad if existing hyperlinks in
AMIGA-context would be adapted accordingly.
Subsequently, you'll find an open letter from Felix Schwarz to the
AMIGA-community in all its occurences.
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| IOSPIRIT freezes its own AMIGA-developments : Comment 38 of 69 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by ilwrath on 08-Mar-2004 19:37 GMT | In reply to Comment 36 (Anonymous):
> I buy a product. Somebody invented it, somebody made it, somebody sold it and
> I use it. If it's made of soap or made of bits is splitting hairs.
But that's just it. A bunch of bits by themselves are basically worthless. When you buy software, what you are essentially purchasing is a *license* to do something (hopefully) useful with those bits. On top of that, if the license doesn't include modification rights, you are stuck with JUST THOSE BITS. So, you HOPE that the company that you purchased this license from, will be around to help you make use of those bits!
As Don said... It might still be a fair trade, if the company sticks around and is able to provide support and updates to keep those bits being able to do useful things. But software needs to keep changing and updating to be useful. Once those updates stop, most likely, the bits you "purchased" will be useless and worthless in a very short time. Be it from being unable to be used on modern hardware, or being unable to interface with newer standards, or whatever.
Therefore, in terms of value, I STILL say software transactions should be viewed more as service contract than physical product. |
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