Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 16:38:03 09/19/05
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On September 19, 2005 at 18:01:59, K. Burcham wrote: > >what would prevent a programmer from releasing a program as a new version >without any change in code? >How would anyone know whether there is a code change? >Of course we buy programs without an increase in elo, and sometimes we buy a new >version when the old version is higher elo. > >kburcham If I bought a program last year and you bought the same program now, don't you want your version to include the authors latest work even if this is just a tiny new feature? You now if you have a one year old program, no one expect you to buy a new version the next year. Bugfixes is for fixing bugs, you would expect a program to work as described when you bought it. New feature is for new versions else there will never be an end. Odd Gunnar
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