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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 5, 2006 at 11:16 PM
Steve, I agree with your points about the ethics of positioning and pricing the current version and the beta as ADM has done.
I wish Eric would change it, and this issue did come up on the list. Once when Stephen Diamond raised his concerns in another venu, I felt the need to post to the ADM group about it.
The only thing I might say is that ADM was notorious for not keeping their site current—that always seemed to be a detail that got lost in the shuffle. I hope that is the case here rather than intennt to deceive, although given the ethics of the situation, it is not a defense.
Daly
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Daly,
>
>I am not so sure I can believe that Eric is all that ethical. If you go to the ADM
>web site, you can still pay for an upgrade to the beta of version 4.0. If there is any
>chance that version 4.0 will never be done, then they should stop selling upgrade
>immediately. Additionally, you can still purchase version 3.0 for $129. This too is a
>misrepresentation, as I understand there are a lot of bugs still in version 3.0. Also,
>people migh purchase 3.0 expecting a new version soon.
>
>All in all, I think the
>software industry is better off without companies like ADM, which make all shareware
>developers look bad.
>
>Steve Z.