Hey Tony,
VIrtually every open-sourc program (includign all those under the GPL)
come with the statement that they are _NOT_ supported. You can't expect
soembody to work for you for nothing. You have the soruce code, fx it
yourself!
Good idea. What do you do when you are unable to write or modify a program?
We deliver something that works, out of the box. It's for the 95% that don't know
how
to program and the 95% of the 5% left that have no idea about fluxes, disk coding or
what pre-compensation means.
No need to fix it, it's working! Since 2010, and we're constantly adding
features.
I have been pleasanylu supprised by the support I get
from open-source
software authors, but I don't exxpect them to do work for me for nothing.
I might e0-mail them a comment and/or a change I've made to do something
I want to do, Or I might ask them 'what is going one here' so that I can
fixx the problem. I always seem to get a helpful reply.
You would also get a helpful reply from us. We really like to help. We have
over 600 users out there. Look how much negative feedback there is on the forums.
Forums are usually littered with complaints as people tend to only write something when
things are bad.
board. I can't look into the future, but you
would still be able to=20
access the data ingested because the formats are documented. What I can=20
say is that we don't have plans to let it fade into oblivion, so my=20
So say 99% of other ahrdware and softwre mnufacutrers about their
products. Doesn't mean it doens't happen.
?does not mean it has to happen.
I disagree. If there is a claer technicla point, as here, I feel a
developer or a simialr product is perhaps the best to raise it.
So it does not feel strange to you that the only person that ever complained about this is
he who must not be named?
> To use your analony. If I fvisited your home I would not comment on your
> style of deoor, your furniture, ro anythign like that. But if I saw
> somethign that I considered to be dangerous to you, your family, or
> others, I certianly would comment. If I saw you had some exxpensive
> objects and that your door lock was a really cheap and simple one that
> anyone could open with a paperclip I'd tell you about that too. You bet I
> would.
No, you come to my place and give everyone around the impression that the food I serve is
bad.
I politely ask you to stop, you refuse, you get thrown out. Days later, everyone is still
fine, the food
was delicious and everyone enjoyed the evening very much, except for your visit.
> It would appear from your comments that the only sort of message you
> allow on your facebook page is one in favour of your product. That means
> the page is essentially worthless .I want a see a balanced set of
> comments. If soemthign is poorly doen, Iwant to know about it. I would
> agree that a comment like 'This product is crap' helps nobody. An
> explainatio of whay a particualr chip is a poor choice does.
So prove me wrong: there are more than 600 units in circulation, some are used every day
for dozens of disks.
Some have read tenths of thousands of disks. It is working fine. Did you ever think about
that parts were chosen
for a reason? Why would I change my design because a competitor thinks I should?
I've been on many forums and mailing lists over
the years. I feel the
only things that should get you thrown off are inciitng crimes (and
racism, homophobia, etc) and posting wildily off-topic mesages. Not
positing reasonaed criticism of the device under discussion.
Here I am. We have nothing to hide. I still tidy up the Facebook page from time to time.
>
>>> 2) Is there any truth to the
comments about a 'conflict of interests' i=
>> f
>>> somebody wants to devleop both for your device and the Diskferret?
>
>> Suggestions like that (the original
statement, not your question here)=20
>> would you get thrown out of my house for sure. Why would any large, big,=20
> I fdeel that this attitudew is good for
your bottom line now, but is not
> godo for data preservation in general, and it's not good for the classic
> computing hobby. A lot more gets done when inforation ant techniques arwe
> shared. Yes, you don't maek the profit, but more data is preserved. Which
> is more important?
Data can be preserved - that's what the unit was made for. You get the STREAM data,
that's your disk.
You mess up preservation and the fact how we market our device. These are different
things.
Visit our site
http://www.softpres.org
We have lots of information to share. Our technology is based on this information.
It's all free and we share it. Since 2001.
Enjoy.