The Logic Off Topic list

>--- Dennis Gunn <dennisg@...> wrote:
>>  >
>>  This is the mentality I cannot understand at all.
>  > People acting as
>>  if something is being taken away or there is some
>>  principle being
>>  violated
>   Well here's my beef! Just prior to the announcement
>that logic was to no longer support windows, I made
>the upgrade. Without a word from the company on the
>fate of windows support for the future, they basically
>took my money and ran.

You mean they didn't provide you the upgrade you paid for?  Or do you 
mean they did provide you the one you *paid* for but your just pissed 
off because you think they aren't going to *give* you something more 
because they have been so evil as to have given you things in the 
past and gotten you all used to getting stuff for free?  Incidentally 
as pathetic as that mind set is it is even more pathetic in light of 
the fact that there actually will in fact be a pretty major update 
pretty soon that will be free.

>Now this may be an ethical
>business practice in your mind but I find it rather
>"cheesey". To support a company(no matter how good
>there product is) who treats there customers or soon
>to be ex-customers in this manner is difficult at
>best. I don't begrudge Emagic for doing what they did
>,hey it's there company not mine. It's how they went
>about doing it that ticks me off!

How else would they go about it?   This is not a rhetorical question. 
I see this raised all the time and I am trying to figure out an 
alternate scenario that is both remotely realistic and that would 
satisfy people with the mind set that anything that does not benefit 
them personally must be by definition unethical.