Hi, Alex, nice to hear from you. Thanks for clearing up exactly what these guys provide. I checked your home page for GPredict (which I use and enjoy!) and noticed you state the Windoze version is out-of-date. Yep, eBay is eBay, and as always Caveat Emptor! Thanks for providing your software! 73, Jim
--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Alexandru Csete [email protected] wrote:
From: Alexandru Csete [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Selling "free" software. To: [email protected] Cc: "AMSAT BB" [email protected] Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 4:07 PM On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:50:21 -0800 (PST) Jim Jerzycke [email protected] wrote:
Hah! You'll get no argument from me on that point. Now if the repackager adds something to it, like a
nice "HOWTO" for
setting it up and running it, and a list of links to
other satellite
resources, then they've added some value to it,
and (I think) would
be justified in charging a bit more. I haven't
seen the auction, but
I'll go look for it. 73, Jim
Well, I've had the chance of inspecting one of these CDROMs. The only "added value" I saw was an installer script that unpacked a ZIP file. I don't know how much added value that is... No, what I would call added value is if they would take my source code and build a windows executable themselves and take care of the windows port. But of course they don't do it. Consequently, what they are selling on ebay now is way out of date compared to latest releases, since I have stopped making windows versions.
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