Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Pelc's effort to sabotage cross-compiler writing has a work-around now! Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:11:16 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <218dbj$4u7@news.cerf.net> <219r34$gk4@news.cerf.net> <64fa7d1f-d80b-4e7c-b087-d42c9c5a201d@googlegroups.com> <30e2841a-637c-461c-8df9-02957a978226@googlegroups.com> <4bf7471b-6bf4-4cf9-a82a-ac561a15836b@googlegroups.com> <345f59dc-e054-43b4-8822-dc2470dc24ed@googlegroups.com> <642444d6-5954-4fe4-9b6b-4d89c65e2d6b@googlegroups.com> <54373935.581382092@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:34003 On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:56:01 -0400, wrote: > I'll download the new version and try it out. Thanks for fixing the bug! > This is as compared to Forth Inc. that demands a $300 upgrade fee for > bug fixes. The fee is most likely to eliminate nuisance complaints and/or set up a small amount of continuous cash flow to sustain operations. It's trivial for a small business to pay that. For unknown reasons, every company seems to have a few hostile customers who go into a rage of complaints that never ends, much like you. A company I worked for had one customer who would plug the electric mains into the output ports of his product and return it, every month, month after month, for years until the repair technician finally complained to management. Repairs were free. Eventually, they gave him a new unit. He blew it up and returned it too. They started charging for repeated repairs after that. That put an end to him and a few others returning product repeatedly but less frequently. If you had a serious complaint, submitted for free, they likely would've fixed it at some point as part of their product improvement cycle. > I'm only interested in the free evaluation version of VFX, as I'm > way to cheap to pay for a Forth compiler. I thought you were coding your own. Supposedly, you did so once already for Testra. Repeat the process. You'll be happy with the result. Rod Pemberton