CLARIFICATION OF 5.7 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "FpTech Sales" <sales at fptech.com>

> Example: Customer A purchases 5.7.00 and is given the option to
> purchasse the annual subscription for 20% of the total list price of
> the invoice. He decides to purchase the annual subscription and will
> be entitled to download ALL the releases during the term of the
> subscription; therefore, as release become available for download, he
> simply downloads the product ( example 5.7.08) and starts using the
> feature(s) available in
> ALL the releases from 5.7.00 to 5.7.08.
> 
> Customer B decides that he would like to upgrade to 5.7 from 5.0.09.
> He has to pay 65% of the total list price to upgrade to 5.7.00. He is
> also given the option to purchase the annual subscription. He
> declines. He is entitled to download ONLY 5.7.00 (WHICH IS THE
> STARTING POINT OF ALL NEW OR UPDATED PURCHASES). He does not start at
> 5.7.08 since he would get all the features from 5.7.00 to 5.7.08 which
> is not fair to those who have purchased the annual subscription
> starting at 5.7.00;

For reference purposes, three component version numbering has been

version.revision.change 

for about 30 years now, and ".change" is customarily used for bugfix 
releases.

You seem to be suggesting that if a customer buys the product in the middle
of a revision train (5.7.x), that they're not going to get any bug fixes
that have accumulated between 5.7.0 and whatever x is.

I would say "surely you don't mean that", but -- and I don't especially
mean to be mean here; just bein' honest -- we *expect* that from fpTech.

Did you actually mean that?

We'd all be a lot better off if you weren't engaging in marketing-driven
version numbering, and this was v 4.5 or so, like it's supposed to be.  (I
used to have the equivalence list in my head for all the versions that got
skipped, but I've forgotten it.)

Cheers,
-- jra
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