UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback Potential Silver Linning

I have been following this change closely over the last few days. I even upgraded to the latest version of the board in Perl and PHP on my site so I would be in line for future upgrades.

I saw the post about the new pricing. I must admit that since my site is personal and funded from out of pocket I would not be able to buy Threads under the new setting.

However all the commercial folks should be happy. If I remember right a commercial upgrade contract for one year was $50.00. I see that new license's will have to pay $125.00, but current users will get 75% off. So commercial upgrades will be cheaper than under the old system. It is all in perspective.

As long as Rick is able to develop this product like he is advertising, I think I can live with the other stuff.

Will we get Rick and Infopop or INFOFLOP, time will tell.

Dale

You have to admit that paying 50% of the original price of the software per year for the right to receive upgrades and bug fixes is expensive. One might even be tempted to wonder if such a strategy wouldn't encourage the owners to deliberately plant bugs as a matter of policy to force upgrades, reserving particularly nasty 'errors' for times when an analysis of their records shows a large amount of upgrade licenses expiring.

Although this is a consipiracy theory, conspiracies do exist...

I would agree that 50% of purchase price for upgrade is high, but I am a current user and only have to pay the $31.25. While I would not buy the product under the new setting I will continue to use it.

Dale

ankh,

that might be true of certain unnamed Operating Systems that charge you anew for each new version that comes out.... but not for Rick! The bugs that have surfaced in the past were either oversights, typos, or honest mistakes.

Since Rick will continue to be lead developer on this software, and all code will be run by him for QA & Testing (actually, we'll probably still do a lot of the beta testing, which I think is GREAT!), I don't see this ever happening with this product.

Matt