[discussion] Expiration of subscription license.

[Robert Brenstein]

>
>Robert,
>
>Then let me please ask.
>
>You want to say if you have buy REALbasic 4.5 Or MetaCard 3,
>And 12 months later they ship RB 5.0 then REAL still issue 4.6 and 4.7 with
>fixed bugs?
>
>It seems I have not see this.
>
>I know that Apple really ship old versions of 9.x
>Microsoft some years did ship Windows 95 service packs with fixes...
>So it looks only big products follow to this. And even their choice depend
>on the number of copies of particular version on now.
>
>As you have understand after Valentina 2.0 we are gong to switch to not
>often releases. So most probably we will be able after 3.0 still keep branch
>of 2.x environment to ship bug fix releases if needed.
>
>But in any case this will not be forever. After 4.0 we will drop 2.0
>probably. Maintain 3 branches is already great pain.

Ruslan, comparing Valentina to operating systems is wrong. It seems 
that you do not understand fully what I am saying. You seem to think 
I am asking to keep updating old versions for ever. I gave you a 
specific example of what I meant:

>>It means that if I am using version 2.1 and you are now at 2.2b4 
>>and a bug affecting 2.1 is found, you release a bug fix for 2.1 
>>besides fixing it for 2.2b5. This way, if I want to participate in 
>>beta testing, I can get the new beta, but if I don't or my license 
>>expired, I simply get the bug fix.

I should have added that once 2.2 is released, 2.1 is frozen -- no 
more bug fixes. You start working on 2.3 and now 2.2 is subject to 
bug fixes in parallel to development of 2.3.

Robert