License Manager Issues

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:54:38AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> In the relative spacial/temporal region of
> Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:33:38AM -0500, Jay Ashworth achieved the spontaneous
> generation of the following:
> > 
> > And to hammer my own personal favorite nail again: this is not a retail
> > product: it's a *development system*, aimed at people who themselves
> > produce enduser products... which imposes on it a whole different set
> > of reasonability expectations, of which this is merely the most prominent.
> 
> Just to clarify for my edification...  You're basically saying that if
> you develop Widget Tracker 3.2 and claim to support linux, then fP raises
> the bar on which versions of linux they support, you're up the proverbial
> creek sans paddle inasfar as supporting your own customers that can't/won't
> upgrade their OS?

Correct: filePro's job is to make *my* life easier, not harder.  Each
workaround I have to make because fP restricted something further (or
implemented something poorly :-) has exponential impact on *me*,
because filePro is a *tool I use to get work done and make money*;
those regressions don't affect me once; they affect me *forever*.

(Or, ok, for quite a long time; but it's not fpTech's place to put *me*
in the position where I have to tell lots of my paying customers "You
have to go spend a whole shitpot of money to upgrade your OS [because I
made a poor choice of tools vendor]."

SCO and Intel already pulled this on us with the "P4s will catch fire
on releases older than 5.0.7" thing a couple years ago.")

> If so, I agree with you; that would have a potentially substantial impact
> on your ability to do business and honour your own agreements.  In fact,
> that's a highly unenvyable position in which to be.

Yup.

Cheers
-- jra
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