From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-29 17:11:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!lon1-news.nildram.net!154.32.99.10.MISMATCH!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:02:04 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> <3C9514DD.9CF1F84A@san.rr.com> <99da9u0909rsblfdcc1ru7jd2r9q461qhk@4ax.com> <436o9uc7jg590rv5rb1l9v6be8vk49s278@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1017410525 26265 136.170.200.133 (29 Mar 2002 14:02:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Mar 2002 14:02:05 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21869 Date: 2002-03-29T14:02:05+00:00 List-Id: I would suspect that this would be, at minimum, a logistical nightmare. It might work for someone who is dealing with a relatively small handful of customers - some custom package being maintained for, say, a hundred or so users. But for a serious commercial product with wide distribution I doubt it would be practical. Now in the case where you're giving the software away and selling support, there's a whole different dynamic. "Here's your free distribution - including a warranty - except that your soul remedy is full refund of your purchase price - which was nothing." If you run the software and find it buggy & unreliable and you don't want to use it - delete it. But of course, if it *is* highly reliable, there's a lot less incentive for you to purchase support, right? :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message news:Aj0bpsr17AIQ@eisner.encompasserve.org... > > They can charge previous returners a higher price for the next version. > Perhaps not in a CompUSA situation, but certainly when one buys directly > from the producer. Those who get the second copy in the name of their > father-in-law just to get around the system would just be "leakage", > a common retail phenomenon.