MFNetDisk status can not be in status that I pay all MFNetDisk cost and all MFNetDIsk users use it and enjoy it for free. I do not speak about playing with MF using emulation MF I talk about real MF which are used in business companies which can pay for MFNetDisk less than they pay for other alternative. In my site in page "ABOUT" I mention to everyone that MFNetDIsk status may change any day. The cost of MFNetDisk is free even with my activation key for now. But it can change any second. MFNetDisk exist as free and without activation key in many place prom previous donwloading. So if the users want to stop to use MFNetDisk or find new replacement to MFNetDisk they can do it and they have long time to do so. Easily users can copy MFNetDisk disks and tapes to other alternative. If the users will download the new MFNetDIsk code they are understand that MFNetDIsk new code have limitation and its status can change any day, and activation must be done every 3 months and in some case I will allow more time. I think I serve all the users in fair way. I did not hurt anybody, I fix problem in one day or less and my treatment was OK. But when my salary from IBM stoped, I decide to change the way I manage MFNetDisk and stop losing my money when MFNetDisk users can help me do so. I have the right to do so. The users has the right to select to use MFNetDisk or find alternative. If users feel that they do not have enough time to replace MFNetDIsk product with other alternative I will help them to do so by give them more time. I love MFNetDisk. This is the best software product I ever developed, so I have the right to keep it to myself and to cover all my cost from the past to these days.
Thanks, Shai On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Knutson, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > >Company will buy my product. This is the preferred option. To be able to > implement it, I add the activation key. No company will consider to buy any > product >when it is distribute as free product. > > This is not entirely a valid assumption. Most recent example looking > only in the mainframe space MXI was a free product without any activation > codes and not only did Rocket Software purchase the software they hired the > developer. If you widen the net to include all platforms other examples > are available. The reasons companies pay for product typically have > nothing to do with its availability in an "unlocked" version with or > without source code. Many companies require that all software be > supported. Some companies don't allow closed source free tools (in z/OS > especially authorized ones) from a person or company they don't have a > contractual relationship with. The free version of MXI was allowed to > continue self-deprecate as time and OS updates made some options less > useful. The most important difference was that they poured lots of energy > into making the new commercial product an order of magnitude better than > the old free one could have been by having full time devel! > opment with more resources behind it. > > If you want to continue to develop your product on your own respect the > time and energy that people using your current product are returning to > you. All those bugs and everything you learned resolving them only was > possible because you had users. Those folks took time to gather > documentation and send it to you, work with you testing solutions. They > have benefited but I would encourage you don't think of it as only a one > way street unless you write perfect code even a free products "good > customers" pay their own way. If you want folks to trust you then it is > fair to set expectations clearly and a 3 month renewal with dicey talk > about the free version being withdrawn doesn't encourage users to embrace > you. At a minimum I would suggest you not be so tight with your existing > users. If you did sell the intellectual property you have developed or > decide to commercialize it yourself make sure they have a long, gentle road > to walk away from the tool or choose to migrate to a ! > commercial product. > > That is just my .02 on a rainy day. > > Best Regards, > > Sam Knutson, GEICO > System z Team Leader > mailto:[email protected] > (office) 301.986.3574 > (cell) 301.996.1318 > > "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Shai Hess <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:14 AM > Subject: MFNetDisk news > To: [email protected] > > > ** > HI, > > Many try to download lately my product but it was disable for download > because the need to think about the future of MFNetDisk. > This step come after I stopped to work for IBM. > MFNetDisk have many users. Some of them from big nad known SW companies. > Some of them IBM, EMC workers and many more. They ask me to stay > confidentially. > All MFNetDisk users love the product shortly after try it. > I know that I can not throw my product and I need to continue to keep it > alive but I can not pay alone my cost for this product. > As I mention before I was in vacation far away form Israel and now I am > back. > So, I need to update you about the direction of MFNetDisk. > > The product for now will continue to be free. > The new MFNetDIsk will distribute with activation key. > The activation will be for 3 months. > MF emulation does not need activation key and it will be free. > All above can be changed if other company will buy my product. > The download of MFNetDisk is disable for now because I add some code to > my product. > I hope shortly downloading of my product will be available to all users. > > My expected options are: > > > Company will buy my product. This is the preferred option. To be able to > implement it, I add the activation key. No company will consider to buy any > product when it is distribute as free product. > > > I will create company by myself to handle MFNetDisk as not a free product. > If this is the case, I will use some users of MFNetDIsk which were involve > in debugging and use of my product and prove expertly in IO MF, disks and > tapes and in MFNetDisk product itself. > > > I will let other company to resell my product for part of the price. > To all resellers be aware, no has monopoly of resell my product in any > country or place. > > > Enable good and well known company to help me to continue my support and > manage and sell of my product for part of the expected revenue of > MFNetDisk. This will enable me to add big companies (banks and more) > to MFNetDisk users list. > > > All this options will be considered and one of them will be selected. > So, please continue to use MFNetDisk currently as free product, but it can > be changed to costly product any time. > > > . > > > Thanks, > God bless you. > Shai Hess, MFNetDisk product. > > > > -- > Thank. > God bless you, > Shai > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ==================== > This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. > Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this > email/fax is prohibited. 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