Looks like a new version of Surfulater is about to be released.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 31, 2008 at 01:13 PM

Q wrote:
>I do not need the tags in my life at the moment…

If you do want them, you can get the pre-release version (2) which supports them, and has no stability problems as far as I know:
http://blog.surfulater.com/2008/07/17/the-new-surfulater-v29400-pre-release/

>but I somehow do feel
>that the main reason I had purchased it was the ‘lifetime’ as I bought it when i was still
>a student….and I bought software mostly on deals and hence purchased surfulater
>but now I find that purchasing lifetime does not mean lifetime because of a change in
>circumstances….

I can definitely sympathise with your approach.

I still haven’t upgraded to 3.0 but I will, as I believe that in the long term Neville’s development will lead to a product way beyond an offline browser. At the moment what is mainly missing from Surfulater are more ways to get information into it, such as importing files from disk. Neville has indeed admitted as much. Within this context, if development takes such a direction, Surfulater may soon need a different name.

I know all this isn’t much consolation. However, at a certain point companies much choose between keeping their promises 100% or ensuring their own viability so that they can keep at least part of their promises in the future as well. And—it’s actually very easy to provide a lifetime license if one doesn’t ever update a product!

Cheers
Alexander