The Logic Off Topic list

>They should have provided me with the option to
>upgrade or not based on the fact that windows would no
>longer be supported!


# 1  You are describing a situation that does not exist.  What 
e-magic said is that they will continue to do maintenance upgrades of 
LAWP. Windows is still supported and will continue to be supported. 
What they wont do is sell any more copies of LAWP after October 1st.

# 2.  You entered into a business deal where you purchased a specific 
product for a specific price.  Please check the terms of the license 
agreement.   It's all spelled out there.  e-magic lived up to their 
end of the deal right to the letter and yet accuse them of "taking 
your money and running.".  In other words you are accusing them of 
theft.

If the discussion is about ethics then I am trying to understand your 
conception of what is ethical.  I am not a Christian but according to 
the bible it is not just unethical but is actually a cardinal sin to 
"bear false witness against thy neighbor".  And that is basically a 
pretty good way to describe false attribution as in #1 or false 
accusation as in #2.  Are ethics things that only other people are 
supposed to have?

# 3.  How were they to let you know?  I don't know when you bought 
your upgrade but when 5.0 was released and probably even when 5.1.3 
was released no one at e-magic even had the vaguest I that the deal 
was going down.  How were they supposed to tell you what they didn't 
know themselves.  Even most of the staff did not know that they 
company was to be sold until the day the announcement was made 
publicly.  That may not seem "nice" to you but that's pretty much the 
way it goes when companies are bought or sold.  So again I am trying 
to figure out the "unethical" part.