FW: CLARIFICATION OF 5.7 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

[Fairlight]

At Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:17:58AM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Steve Wiltsie was observed uttering:
> 
> Those without a subscription are entitled to 5.7.00.01, 5.7.00.02 and so
> on just as it is now and has been for years.
> Those with a subscription are entitled to 5.7.01.01, 5.7.01.02 and so on
> 
> The additional revision level allows us to offer the subscription
> program to those wishing to prepay for new features and enhancements.
> Those same customers would also hold a higher priority in our wish list
> and development planning.

The additional revision level would be entirely unnecessary if they'd use
the first three numbers sensibly, like the rest of the industry does.

I can picture this...30 years from now, they will catch on to the "new"
industry marketing techniques and release "filePro X".  This assumes fP
survives another decade, which I'd personally bet against.

Might I add that the release schedule they've been on hasn't even seen
a consistent annual release?  I think there was a 2+ year gap between
releases at one point between 5.0.14 and 5.0.15/5.6.  If the release
schedule doesn't support the contract model, the model is a sucker bet for
customers, akin to insurance--but far less useful.  If they're guaranteeing
'x' releases per year, okay then.  But unless that happens, I can't see
this flying.

mark->
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