Well what you're saying makes perfect sense. I just figure five years to
be a really long time to wait to make a return on your investment. I'll
pay the fees but it just somehow feels like I'm begin scammed.
Maybe it's just because there's so much cool, free Newt software that
when you run up against something that costs 30 dollars it just doesn't
seem to click. In any case I would think StandAlone would be making more
off their PalmOS products and could maybe drop the price on their old
Newt stuff by maybe 10 bucks. As it is I would be paying more for More
Folders than I did for my dongle. It doesn't really click for me.
On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 10:16 PM, Brian Pearce wrote:
>
>> So does anybody know what I do in this situation? I have no real
>> objection to paying shareware fees but in this instance it seems kind
>> of
>> absurd. Paying fees for shareware that isn't going to ever be
>> updated...
>> For a platform that is, in terms of money-making prospects, pretty much
>> dead. Does anybody see where I'm coming from?
>
> Generally, when I pay for a piece of software, all I'm paying for is
> the version of the program I'm purchasing, and maybe some tech support.
> I know full well that the software may be superceded by a later, better
> version, and I may well have to spend more money to purchase it if I
> choose to. Practical experience has shown that I can't expect that
> software updates will always be free (or in this case, even
> forthcoming).
>
> Regardless of the present state of the Newton platform, a software
> developer has every right to a return on his investment of time and
> effort, in whatever small increments he can get it (and no matter how
> long it takes).
>
> I think the right thing to do is pay the small amount of money for
> shareware that you find genuinely useful, wherever possible. After
> that, use your best judgment. (That said, there are probably free
> alternatives to many of the StandAlone programs that cover much of the
> same ground, and this is a good place to ask for suggestions.
>
>
> BRIAN/bpearce_at_cloud9.net
>
>
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