1. Marketing Suggestions... [IMHO-oc]
As someone who will most likely register Euphoria when 2.1 becomes stable
(and then worry about how to fix my EE version :) ), I'd like to make a
few suggestions for the *genuinely* skint[1] out there:
Disclaimer: These are all IMHO. I'm sure Mr. Rob can come up with logical
and reasonable reasons not to do this...
1) Leave the 2.0 PD edition permenently available from the RDS site.
2) Put the 1.5a (or earlier) *full-version* out for free.
I realise that there may be some folk registered on these earlier
versions, and this would be unfair.
Maybe a free upgrade to 2.0 (or the next version above the version
made free) for these people?
3) Put the above on a "Free Downloads" page with the new 2.1 PD-edition at
the top of the page (Incentive 1 - Top notch product).
List the pricing for the *full* 2.1 edition below the "Download 2.1"
link. (Incentive 2 - Reasonable pricing!).
Before the "_Download_Here_" links for the other versions, place large
amounts of text showing what they're missing out on by downloading that
particular version. (e.g. WIN32 / routine_id() et al. / Faster handling
/ etc. etc. ) (Incentive 3 - Missing out)
Anyone think this is a good idea?
Carl
Not being entirely sure whether this word has made it across the 'pond'...
[1] "skint" /a. colloq./ Having little money or total lack thereof.
Without collateral, investment or finance. e.g. "Can you lend me some
money?" "Sorry mate, I'm skint." [N.Brit.Dials. f E.:'skinned']
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Carl R White -- Final Year Computer Science at the University of Bradford
E-mail........: cyrek- at -bigfoot.com -- Remove hyphens. Ta :)
URL...........: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cyrek/
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2. Re: Marketing Suggestions... [IMHO-oc]
>2) Put the 1.5a (or earlier) *full-version* out for free.
>
>Anyone think this is a good idea?
I definately think it's a very bad idea ... Just think of all the
'newbie' questions which will arise, which the newsgroup participants
solve, only to be then told ... that the solution didn't work, and even
later, I'm using 1.5 ;-(
Also, as the only difference between FreeWare / Registered is the
debugging limit on source lines [ and bind ] ... anything you can do in
the registered version can be done in the free version; you just have to
make sure your code works as debugging gets thin on the ground after 300
lines 
