Re: filmscanners: Vuescan

[Roman Kielich® <panromek@bigpond.com>]

well said Art. I have noticed that Ed is still frequenting news groups, 
which hold much more noise than filmscanners. Anyway, nobody is forced to 
read all the traffic, if you don't like any particular OT, just skip it. 
You're right, we had both (the group and Ed) benefit from discussions. BTW, 
to me Ed didn't look too concerned about OT.

At 21:15 20/03/2001 -0800, you wrote:



>I find that very interesting, if accurate. Especially after he
>encouraged the flood of this exact group with literally hundreds, if not
>thousands, of messages regarding his Vuescan product. He was very
>willing to use this group to advance his product sales and acquire free
>public input of valuable suggestions that otherwise he would have had to
>pay consultants for and free beta testing.
>
>I don't discount the amount of time he spends on this project, but he
>does pocket $40 US per sale, and I'm sure he is doing well with product
>sales. Eventually, he will sell this product to a major supplier, or
>license it for major money. That's great for him. It seems like a good
>or growing product, but he has received plenty of repayment for whatever
>energy has gone into being on this list though said beta testing and
>think-tank sessions.
>
>To simply abandon his paying public on this group, which I imagine is
>not small, based upon the feedback he generated concerning improvements,
>shows a lack of regard for them, especially without making an
>announcement of this, so they weren't whistling in the wind, thinking
>they were still communicating with him. Even if he no longer reads this
>group, and chose to announce that and supplied another method of
>communications with him, he could still provide information of updates
>here quite easily.
>
>The other side of this equation is that he took a lot of heat off the
>scanner manufacturers who have been producing weak or literally
>defective software which they have an obligation to improve the quality
>of, which might explain the ease he has in receiving advance sample
>product from companies like Nikon. If Nikon likes it so much, they
>should include the product as an alternative to their own, included in
>the price of their scanner.
>
>I have referred hundreds of people to his software as a potential
>alternative, including a number of local local scanner dealers, so I am
>not grinding any axes here. But just imagine what Linux would have
>looked like, had each coder/contributor required payment.
>
>Socialistically yours,
>
>Art
>
>
>




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