| [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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| Posted by Anonymous on 09-Mar-2004 21:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 58 (Don Cox):
> I am more responding to the anonymous person whose attitude is to throw a program at the customer, grab the cash, and run
Please turn on the logic unit in your brain, Don. Programmers who want to make money don't throw a program at the customer and run. That's the way to make no money, and people who write software understand that perfectly well. Updates appear to be designed for customer happyness but in reality, they were invented by programmers as the ultimate selling tool: updates are the the dominating source of income for us. One initial sale, many updates. And frequent updates attract undecided users, which is another benefit. But this has absolutely nothing to do with the point that you tried to defend: that you have the right to go to a forum and declare a program worthless and moan the "loss" of your money (and recommend immediate upload to aminet) if an author chooses to end the development. You purchased a product because it was good, you received it and you used it and with that use, the money was used up. There is no credit left that would give you the right to feel "cheated": You just don't have an inherent built-in right to anything beyond the software, which was delivered. A developer is stupid if he doesn't sell what could be sold, updates that is, but my guess is that that specific software was tereminated because it generated no profit. |
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