A REAL Filepro manual or just charge my ass and help me out with this memo exporting please

[Brian K. White]

On 8/17/2017 3:28 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
>> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Brian K.
> White
>> via Filepro-list
>> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:27 PM
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: Re: A REAL Filepro manual or just charge my ass and help me out
> with
>> this memo exporting please
>>
>> On 8/16/2017 9:00 AM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:53:59PM +0000, Henry Melancon via
> Filepro-list
>> thus spoke:
>>>> Do they not realize they are losing money because of the licensing????
>>>
>>> Well, I see two possible options:
>>>
>>> 1) They've only heard it from third party consultants/programmers
>>> rather than direct customers (although I know Brian White has said it,
>>> and is an employee of a direct customer), or
>>>
>>> 2) They've heard it from customers, and simply don't care.  That's an
>>> approach big companies like Adobe can afford to take, as people are
>>> always going to want Adobe products.  I wasn't under the impression
>>> that fP-Tech was in that league.
>>>
>>> mark->
>>>
>>
>> Part of the problem is, even though we aren't using the new product, we
> still
>> paid for new seats simply to stay legal. So they got theirs regardless, so
> where is
>> the incentive? The day when we *actually* start using fewer seats, and
> never
>> buy another license, is still pretty far away.
>>
>
> I don't follow the above statement.  Did you purchase the upgrade and not
> install it or did you purchase more seats for your current version to stay
> legal?

As we acquire new customers, we require more fp seats for them to use.
To be legal, we have to buy *something* from fp. But in fact we don't 
use what we buy. We buy a current license, because that's all they sell. 
But all we actually use are more copies of the old binaries, which of 
course are totally unsupported. They got money for nothing from us as 
far as I'm concerned.

Although that need is actually lessening already.
Even though the data and application logic is still 99% in fp, the more 
web front-ends we write, the more we serialize the use of fp seats into 
0.1 second transactions rather than clerk screens sitting there open all 
day, the fewer fp seats we need per end user.

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bkw