Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Nov 2005 20:47 UTC
Apple offered free licenses of Mac OS X for MIT's proposed $100,- (E85,-) laptop initiative, however, the proposal offered by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs was declined because the program was looking for open-source software, according to a new report.
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RE[2]: This is the right move
by Wowbagger on Tue 15th Nov 2005 02:40
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Would you even want to ask a company to agree to provide free updates for "life"?
Stone Software http://stone.com is offering exactly that, and I am a happy customer with them. Their support is excellent, if you ask anything usually the developers themselves help you out.
Yes, free upgrades for life is doable.
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2005-06-29
Would you even want to ask a company to agree to provide free updates for "life"? I mean, that's an enormous thing to committ to if they decided to EOL the product, they'd still need to maintain it for those users who aren't paying them....