Re: Any ideas
Robert Craig writes:
>Everett,
>You paid $39.00 for version 2.1.
>You were given 2.2 for free.
>I spent far more than $39 of my time
>disproving your totally false, persistent and
>defamatory accusations of a virus in Euphoria
>a few months ago, not to mention the time I've
>spent reading and occasionally replying to your
>personal e-mail as well as postings to the list.
I think you should've bit your tongue HERE, Rob.
>If you do not feel you got full value for your $39, I will
>happily refund it, provided you:
> 1. destroy your copy of the Complete Edition
> 2. unsubscribe from this mailing list and don't return.
>Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
Here, here Rob!
But a word of advice to the both of you:
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you"
Before I go any further, I should say that I am NOT a registered user as of
yet. But this is only due to the fact that I am piss poor right now.I fully
intend to have a registered copy of EU ASAP.(whenever that may be)
Rob:
Although I can whole-heartedly understand your attitude, where would EU be
without people like E.Williams to support it from the other end?
As a suggestion, based on other peoples suggestions for a more funtional msg
list. I think that there should be a better formatted message forum that
allows content search capabilities and filtering of STRICTLY EU related
material. The filtering could be done voluntarily by non and registered
users alike (with an incentive of course).
--(I think this one should be a must)
Another suggestion, would be to add a polling forum where users could post
suggestions and others could vote on them. In this way people like myself
could refer to it and see what the community actually needs or wants, you
could offer the RDS bucks based on the number of votes for that utility as
an incentive with the condition that they provide support for it. In this
way, I think it would drammatically increase the development process of the
'USEFUL' additions to EU, and at the same time, reduce the plethora of
'JUNK' utilities in the RDS archives and contribution list that have been
building up over the years.
Also, I believe this would make the EU community a litte more friendly.
These ideas weren't really thought through. I just wrote them as they came
to mind. So they're the basics of the concepts, that's all.
Everett:
At LESS than $50, I think of EU more as shareware than a full-fledged
software package. And just like any other shareware, you'll get limited
support, because the majority of the users aren't even registered.
Let's just say for example( and this is probably generous ) that there are
20,000 users, and 20% of these are registered. That's
$100,000 . How many years has it been around? How many more years is it
gonna be around? How much of this money was put back into EU? And how much
time has Rob spent supporting it? I would be suprised if he even made money!
You can hardly expect him to spend his FREE time responding to everything
that everyone wants/dislikes. You paid the money for the language that it IS
, NOT the language that it WILL be or even SHOULD be. That's the beauty of
PD, try before you buy.
I may be wrong but, where does it say that registered users will recieve
complete support for EU?
Criticism is good, but only if it's constructive.
I think your criticism should end at the forum. Don't point fingers(
metaphorically, that's how they get broken ). Instead, direct your comments
at your fellow users. In this way your comments stay constructive, and if
people agree, they'll stand behind you, including RDS. Unless RDS genuinely
doesn't care about the development of the language, which I highly doubt.
If there's enough demand for something, RDS will HAVE to comply in order to
keep the language alive.
Everyone:
Please don't reply telling me how wrong I am. Rather, take the good and
forget the rest, or improve on what i've written. I'm tired of reading
peoples badmouthing, as I'm sure you all are.
I think I've said it well?
-- Chris Bensler
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