From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 09:38:52 PDT
on 15/06/01 12:22, John M. Powell at quixjuan_at_QuixNet.net wrote:
>> on 15/06/01 11:58, John M. Powell at quixjuan_at_QuixNet.net wrote:
>>
>>> What if we ALL sign a petition and ask them to open it up?!
>>>
>>> John
>
>>
>> I don't know, but it doesn't cost a lot to try...
>>
>> -Laurent.
>
> Shall we? It might even help to have someone who
> HAD purchased the software present it?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> John
>
>>>>
>>>> on 6/15/01 1:05 AM, countless monkeys randomly typing on
>> behalf of Laurent
>>>> Daudelin at nemesys_at_cox.rr.com miraculously produced:
>>>>
>>>>> on 14/06/01 20:47, Eric Schneck at eschneck_at_mindspring.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Considering the customers who have paid for their copy of
>> GPS Map, the
>>>>>> application will not become freeware and therefore will not be
>>>> available in
>>>>>> future.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if it's only me, and I'm tired, and it's late, but
>>>> that seems
>>>>> like a very stupid statement. The source code won't be
>>>> available, and even
>>>>> the software won't be available! If I had bought a piece of
>>>> software and the
>>>>> company that made it would go belly up, I wouldn't be pissed at
>>>> all if they
>>>>> would make their software available to people that needs it.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Laurent.
>>>>
>>>> I have to agree. In fact, for those who've studied their Bible a
>>>> bit, this
>>>> reminds me of the parable where the workers are being hired
>> for X per day
>>>> and then later on, more workers get hired for the same amount of
>>>> money, and
>>>> so on. With only one hour left, some more are hired at the
>> same pay. The
>>>> workers who worked the full day complain that the last ones are
>>>> getting the
>>>> same amount of money for much less work. The reply they get
>> is basically,
>>>> "You signed on for what you felt was a fair wage. You haven't
>>>> been cheated.
>>>> My agreement with the others doesn't change that."
>>>>
>>>> In the same way, folks who paid for the software paid what
>> they felt was a
>>>> fair price for value received. They've presumably gotten their money's
>>>> worth. The software met their needs at the time they needed
>> it. It's no
>>>> more unfair to them to later give the software away, than it is
>>>> for a store
>>>> to sell you something knowing that tomorrow a sale starts on that item.
>>>> Besides, we all own computers, so we all buy things that we KNOW
>>>> we will get
>>>> cheaper if we wait.
>>>>
>>
>> I don't know, but it doesn't cost a lot to try...
>>
It would certainly not be a bad thing if somebody that bought it would
present it. I don't have a GPS, so I've never had the need for their
software, but who knows, maybe in one or two years, I might find one cheap
enough that I will grab it (BTW, what are the models and brands that are
known to work on a MP2x00?), so that would be nice if I could get the
software at that time...
-Laurent.
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