FW: Upgrade to latest... always! - was "Why?"

[John Esak]

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I'm posting this to the list for Ken. Why his email would be blocked with an
address like bellatlantic.net... well, things must be getting really
ridiculous if all email from such a provider is blocked from this list...
Bill, does this sound right to you??
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: ken white [mailto:kenwhite at bellatlantic.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 9:18 PM
To: john at valar.com
Subject: Re: Upgrade to latest... always! - was "Why?"


the list blocks me from posting. you can repost if you want

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "ken white" <kenwhite at bellatlantic.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 7:50 PM
Subject: RE: Upgrade to latest... always! - was "Why?"


> Ken,
> Can I ask why you sent this reply just to me and not the list?
>
> I think it would help if others like you made
> your feelings known. Your points in this message are all very valid
> especially the CD vs digital download thing. No one was told to obtain the
> latest 4.8.x CD until after 5.0 came out and after that you were not
allowed
> to even buy the 4.8.n version.  You should post this or something like it
to
> the list, not to me.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ken white [mailto:kenwhite at bellatlantic.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 8:18 AM
> > To: john at valar.com
> > Subject: Re: Upgrade to latest... always! - was "Why?"
> >
> >
> > John,
> >
> > I do not know if you counted me as one of the seven people,  but I am
one.
> > I for one believe the 4.8.lastrelease should be available to licensed
> > customers as a digital download.  I think that the management of
> > filepro has
> > been short sited on this issue.  I have purchased a few 5.0.x
> > copies just to
> > get bug fixes,  which  introduced new bugs (fixed in later releases of
ver
> > 5).  I would be willing to pay a nominal fee to download the last
> > release of
> > 4.8.X.   Maybe filepro management requires the income of the upgrade
from
> > 4.8 to 5.0 to stay alive at the cost of bad customer relations.   If
they
> > charged a nominal fee to download 4.8.x I would gladly pay it.  Remember
> > that 4.8.x was released on CD and was not available for digital
download.
> >
> > Remember my bug where records would disappear leaving the record in the
> > index?  Would a later version of 4.8.x fix that problem,  we will
> > never know
> > due to filepro's company policy.
> >
> > I also hate, hate, hate having to purchase a 10 user license ( when two
> > people exist ) just to be able to run a report in background.
> >
> > Filepro's a user friendly package,  the companies licensing policy is
not.
> >
> > >
> > > I hate to add to this longggggggg thread... but I'll do it in this
> > > "top-post". Those who couldn't read some of the quoted text in
> > this thread
> > > (and other threads as well) were experiencing only _slight_ trauma
> > compared
> > > to what my screen reader sounds like reading them... :-) I've
> > also changed
> > > the topic to reflect what my comments are about.
> > >
> > > Just another exhortation to upgrade to the latest version of filePro
you
> > are
> > > entitled to receive. Anything else is folly and short-sighted.
> > I can name
> > at
> > > least 7 people who are _really_ unhappy because they did not
> > upgrade their
> > > 4.8.x versions to the latest and greatest while they had the chance...
> > even
> > > those with 4.8.10 have some rather serious problems... Had they only
> > > obtained the 4.8.12 (and maybe even a couple higher) versions,
> > they would
> > be
> > > much happier today. The very same goes for 5.0.x.
>