Re: Electrix/IVL petition

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Well, what I conceder a tenth place up-grade is a bug fix.  Maybe add a 
few features at .5, if they're *ready*.  I'm actually (as I've said) 
mostly happy about the Repeater and how it works.  The problem is, it 
doesn't work as it's spec'd to.  (I'll mostly harp on the MIDI clock 
out) This is why I'm pretty comfortable in being angry at Electrix for 
selling me something that didn't totally work as described, with the 
promise that it would be fixed in the future.  Perhaps a petition isn't 
in order, but a class action suit.  Sue IVL for not providing a 100% 
working version of the Repeater.  Sue for punitive damages.  Can I sue 
you?  For punitive damages?

Sorry, slipped into a Jerky Boys phone call.

I really think things are far past the point where asking really nicely 
would get us anywhere.

Soooooo, to answer your question, I couldn't imagine a 1.2 OS to be 
worse than the 1.1 (though it's a possibility, I agree) but if they had 
a beta of a 2.0 that had more features, but was unreliable, I would not 
use it.  At this point, I probably would pay a bit for the bug fix, but 
I don't think I should have to.  I would probably pay a few hundred for 
an upgrade that had a few of my big "wish list" items on it that was 
stable.

Mark Sottilaro

On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 02:49  PM, Andre LaFosse wrote:

> Yo Mark,
>
>> I'm sure they must have done some
>> work on an update (v. 1.2?) and won't even sell/finish that.
>
> Question for you: If there were (hypothetically speaking) some sort of
> pre-beta version of 1.2 floating around somewhere, which was very buggy
> and essentially unusable in any remotely consistent manner, would you
> really be eager to pay money for it and stick it into your Repeater?