Issue with Windows 10 Screen colors

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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:45:22PM -0500, Microlite filePro Mail List via
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> *** I got as far as paragraph three.  I would have expected nothing
> more. Taking the time to completely read and understand opinions other
> than your own does not appear to be in your general nature.

Let me rephrase:  I got as far as paragraph three before taking exception
with your viewpoint.  I did actually read the entire post.  You simply
invalidated any legitimacy you had early on.  You also don't know jack
about me, man; I'm probably the only person I know who actually reads the
contracts they sign, in their entirety.

> *** A few vendors from whom I used to purchase software started taking
> your approach.  They're no longer my vendors.
>
> My flippant response to your flippant response would be that you have
> no vendors, since no vendor I know would be jumping to make 20 year old
> software work on modern platforms. That does not preclude the possibility
> that one exists. Just that I don't know of one.

Funny...NVidia was still updating GeForce video drivers years after XP
was EOL, while ATI (pre-AMD, at which point they actually got -worse-)
screwed me five years early on Windows 2000 when they dropped support
for Catalyst drivers.

Guess who my video card vendor is, and who will never see a
non-integrated purchase from me again in my lifetime.  (And then only in
gear which has no NVidia version, like an XBox or PlayStation.  Laptops,
I'll go out of my way to find an NVidia version.)

> *** 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.  
> 
> Actually, my "logic" says that whenever changes caused by
> an operating system vendor break out-of-support software, the vendor is
> entitled to compensation to remediate the problem, as it is extra work
> that costs money to engineer and provide. But you are certainly free to
> misinterpret that in any fashion you desire. I won't try to stop you.

In an ideal world, that'd be nice.  It's an imperfect universe.

The only thing you've done is reinforce the idea that I'm doing it
correctly.  I may at times need to charge someone for the time spent
getting their copy working (without upgrading them), but I've never
force-fed someone a full upgrade cost when I could make the old version
work for less money.

Yeah, I take a hit off of what I -could- be making.  Strangely enough,
people keep coming back.

> > 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.

Oh look...my shirt's turning read.  I believe that's my heart bleeding
for you.  "Cost of doing business."  I've sucked up enough
well-past-sale patches that I'm entitled to say that with a straight
face.  Ask anyone who's gotten a fix from me years later, even if I had
to install a whole new devkit -and- update the code to make it happen.

Hah...no, it doesn't work that way in the real world.  Witness the sheer
volume of people who refuse to be blackmailed into upgrading past 5.0.14.

Look up "perpetual" in the dictionary.  The expectation is that it keeps
working indefinitely.  You're veering closer to planned obsolescence,
the true Apple way.

Your attitude at point #3 tells me all I need to know about never buying
(or recommending) MicroLite.  That's on top of never having been
impressed with it at client sites.  Just icing on the proverbial cake.
I mean, seriously, point #3, could you seriously come closer to saying,
"Or they could just fuck off?"  Cos you pretty much did just about that,
in not so many words.  That's some awesome self-advertising, there!  :)

And no, I'm -not- likely to want the new product after being shafted on
the old product.  I'm extremely likely to have a bitter taste in my mouth,
and hold a decades-long grudge, going out of my way to anti-recommend
the vendor in perpetuity.  Did it with Adaptec.  Did it with ATI.  There
have been others.  

I'm only a Native Instruments customer because it's -the- industry standard
for sample libraries, but believe me, I hate the hell out of them as a
corporation.  Fair enough software, if designed extremely short-sightedly
(10+ years from Kontakt 5 to 6, and the damned UI is still raster, not
vector, and barely useable at 4K resolutions), but a -horrible-, horrible
company with which to do business.  There's no acceptable substitute for
Adobe, so likewise choiceless.

If there were actual fully-fledged alternatives (and no, GIMP doesn't
cut it, nor do most NLE video editors), believe me, I'd be far, far
away from Adobe CC. iZotope is the vendor currently making themselves a
self-inflicted casualty of their "bundle" pricing games which purport to
save you money, while they actually screw you over.  I've gone from buying
virtually everything on release day, to planning on waiting a couple years,
doing one last 'everything' upgrade for the resizable UIs once they get
-all- of their product line in order, doing it on the biggest discount
sale I can find, as a giant, "THAT's for being unreasonable," and having
done.  Plenty of other vendors out there who do what they do, barring two
specialised programs I will upgrade each version, if the features are
compelling.

NI screwed me over to the tune of $495 when I first got into them.  I
gave them a chance to make it right, and they took a pass.  They have
lost -thousands- in sales to me that they otherwise would have had,
because again, I tend to jump on new releases.  Now?  Having been burned
by their business practises (and their -horrible- 'support')??  Now I
wait 2-4 years, and upgrade Komplete Ultimate for $200, and that's all
they see from me unless I absolutely positively want a new release
-NOW-, enough to overcome the vendetta they've generated.  For the sake
of $495, they've boned themselves out of probably $5k+ by now.  That's
what happens when you screw over the customer and make it clear you
don't care in the least.

I'm -far- more likely to find new vendor, if there's a choice.  There's no
shortage, unless it's a very specialised task.  The only ones I grudgingly
stay with after an experience like that are ones with an absolute monopoly
on the featureset.

> > I'm going to have to agree with Nancy here. I'm well aware of
> > development costs for volume software.

And I'm not?  Right.  And there's actually -less- of a cost for 'volume'
software, given that the volume is actually there.  You can amortise that
out across a much bigger ROI than you can smaller-scale sales.  You're not
helping your case; with each sentence, you're literally diminishing my
ability to look at it and not laugh.

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