I'd like to see something to prevent corporations from making money on annual updates with no real substance. I.E. A major anti virus revision every year at a cost of $30-60 per unit leads me to believe it's corporate greed rather than bonifide programming development which is the driving force. Updates for this would be fine. It seems every company is depending upon term upgrades to make their cash flow instead of quality, and then to control and enforce there cash cow by stopping the licensing, maintenance, etc of the older, but perfectly running product. Some examples would be HDDVD, Digital Transmitting, Operating Systems, and the like, all of which you can see being forced down to users by control, not my want or need.
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I'd like to see something to prevent corporations from making money on annual updates with no real substance. I.E. A major anti virus revision every year at a cost of $30-60 per unit leads me to believe it's corporate greed rather than bonifide programming development which is the driving force. Updates for this would be fine. It seems every company is depending upon term upgrades to make their cash flow instead of quality, and then to control and enforce there cash cow by stopping the licensing, maintenance, etc of the older, but perfectly running product. Some examples would be HDDVD, Digital Transmitting, Operating Systems, and the like, all of which you can see being forced down to users by control, not my want or need.