3.0 and 2.x Valentina Upgrades and Renewals; Linux Additions

[erne]

I agree each and every word :-)

Couldn't be better said, Kim!

(just don't remember if my subscription will be valid for the upgrade ;)

on 26-04-2007 4:14, Kim Kohen at kim at webguide.com.au wrote:

> G'day Lynn,
> 
>> This may strike some users as
>> unfair because you already paid for 2.X. The economics of providing
>> ongoing
>> support for multiple versions of an extremely technical product
>> (even with
>> the ease of systems to roll back fixes, that is only a portion of
>> the total
>> cost of supporting a particular version of Valentina) means that
>> revenue has
>> to offset the total cost of fixes - for those fixes to continue to be
>> produced.
> €€€€
> Rest assured this is not 'sour grapes' as my subscription is still
> valid and I'm eligible for the upgrade to v3:)
> 
> I think the point needs to be made that some folks won't want to
> upgrade to v3 not because of economics but because of stability. v3
> is currently beta and will require a bit more testing before I'm
> willing to commit it to production. My problem is I know of at least
> one of my bugs which is fixed for v3 but is broken in 2.5.9 - which
> creates issues with me releasing using v2.
> 
> I guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to be conservative with my
> approach to upgrading (as I am with all software products). I'm happy
> to play with the v3 beta (and have generated v3 clones of my current
> project) but my head tells me it would be better to have a stable
> 2.5.10 release available to me until I'm satisfied that v3 is stable
> enough for production.
> 
> Having said all that, let's hope it's a fantastic and we can jump in
> early.
> 
> cheers
> 
> kim
> 

Cool Runnings,
Erne.
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