Issue with Windows 10 Screen colors

Tue Jan 7 09:19:31 PST 2020

I got as far as paragraph three.

My response is thus:  Then the licensee has no obligation to continue
doing business with your company, and paying for 'upgrade' after
'upgrade'.  A few vendors from whom I used to purchase software started
taking your approach.  They're no longer my vendors.

By your logic, it would be acceptable to keep wallet-raping someone every
time there's a new major update to Win10, since that's now their equivalent
of a new OS version.  You try that, and let us know how it works for you.

Realistically, in the specific case of filePro, it probably just needed a
recompile.  Considering they have the devkit -anyway-, there's a near-zero
cost to providing modern binaries.  I've done more intensive things to
update compiled Perl, at no cost, so I'm not feeling very sympathetic
towards, "Oh noes, I need to recompile!"

Good luck with that outlook.  You do you.  I find people tend to frown upon
such behaviour, but whatever.

m->

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:55:36AM -0500, Microlite filePro Mail List via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> I'm going to have to push back on your principle, or at least your silly and inaccurate analogy.
> 
> A software vendor has an obligation to keep a product running in perpetuity ON THE PLATFORM IT WAS WRITTEN FOR.
> 
> So if I write software for Windows 98 32 bit, and Windows 10 64 bit doesn't support Win98 32bit applications anymore, I've no obligation to make it work as is on that platform.
> I've agreed to make my Windows 98 version work on the platform you purchased it for, Windows 98. Not something that hasn't been invented yet.
> 
> Your choices are:
>  1 - Keep it running on a platform that supports what you purchased. Our agreement is intact.
>  2 - Purchase whatever I've got that runs on the platform you want to switch to.
>  3 - Buy something else.
> 
> It costs the vendor a lot of engineering time and money to support the newer platform.
> If you've gotten your money's worth on the old product, you are likely to want the new product and be willing to pay for it. If not, there is always door #3.
> 
> I'm going to have to agree with Nancy here. I'm well aware of development costs for volume software.
> 
> In our case I WILL update you to a product that hasn't been invented yet, IF I end up supporting that platform and IF you maintain a Support Subscription.
> 
> Tom Podnar
> Microlite Corporation
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fairlight via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 9:57:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Issue with Windows 10 Screen colors
> 
> Actually, why should we agree to that?
> 
> That's like saying GM isn't responsible for making sure their cars
> (which you purchased) are capable of driving on asphalt instead of
> concrete.
> 
> If people purchased software in good faith, it should be usable in
> perpetuity, or they should be upgraded for free.  I've expired product
> versions and forced upgrades, but the difference is that my old stuff
> doesn't stop working; it's an optional upgrade, and the only way you'll
> get support, but nothing prevents the old versions from working.
> 
> Hell, I replace old binary versions of programs with the script version,
> if it's an issue.
> 
> No, I wouldn't agree on principle.
> 
> m->
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 09:13:28AM -0500, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> > Scott,
> > 
> > It may be time to update.  While I know those old versions work great and
> > have for over 20 years, you have to agree that filepro is not responsible to
> > make those old versions compatible with the hardware and operating systems
> > on the new computers.  Also, an investment in fptech so the filepro product
> > is viable for the future is a fabulous idea.  Your customer got his money's
> > worth out of 4.8.
> > 
> > Nancy
> > 
> > On 1/5/2020 8:03 PM, SCott Smith via Filepro-list wrote:
> > > So on a cmd prompt when trying to run eg. SITEPWD.exe you get a popup The
> > > version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows. Check
> > > your version of the program, contact your software publisher.
> > > 
> > > running a 32bit windows 10 version ...
> > > 
> > > But as i mentioned haven't used these in forever so ...
> > > 
> > > Its just that all the other exe files are 32bit / 64bit compatible yet 3
> > > files on that ver media were not. I assume that these 3 files must be only
> > > 16 bit incarnations.
> > > 
> > > I wondered if any of these files were updated prior to the end of that the
> > > 4.8 version.
> > > 
> > > But as they service little to no purpose i would guess not.
> > > 
> > > Scott
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 00:21, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Win10 64-bit still runs 32-bit binaries.
> > > > 
> > > > Ancient 16-bit binaries will be deemed "not a Windows executable", but it
> > > > would say that explicitly if you open a command prompt and try running it
> > > > there where the window can't vanish.  32-bit should be fine.
> > > > 
> > > > What error message are you getting when you try running them at the command
> > > > prompt?
> > > > 
> > > > m->
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 12:39:57PM +1000, Scott via Filepro-list thus
> > > > spoke:
> > > > > Hi all
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > We are just starting to change from win 7 over to windows 10 and some
> > > > > clients are running ver 4.8.10 and the fpconfig.exe must have not been
> > > > > running for a long time as fpconfig.exe seems to be crashing that it's
> > > > not
> > > > > 64bit compatible.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can anybody advice ...
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Scott
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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