Re: Re: Can SP still be bought? Someone willing to sell his/her licence?

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ken Latham wrote:

# This app has always been a sideline for Jeff.  When Palm pulled the rug 
# out from under the Palm OS, Jeff pretty much stopped development (in 
# favor of other projects he's got, see his site ...). And, in addition, 
# he's, well ... "a bit too honest for his own good", if you know what I 
# mean.  He's very reticent to sell something he knows is "end of life".  
# Unless you convince him you know what you're getting into (and after all 
# is only a few dollars we're talking about).

	It was sideline, then was not sideline (remember the glory years 
wher eI had how many updates per week, with several hundred active alpha 
and beta testers, and we kept the build/test/comment/rebuild supre speed 
cycle? Ahh, I still miss that :)

# As to the e-mail, he's had serious problems with spam flooding his inbox 
# and had to move the support address around.  Do a search in here and you 
# should find his latest.  Or maybe your e-mails just got eaten by his 
# (overzealous?) filters ...

	The website links to the email form, that guarantees getting 
through my filters.

	In essence I started to get thousands of spam per day to my 
addresses; it was extra devious too, as it tended to use From and Subject 
lines copied from this very mailing list .. nigh impossible to block 
easily :/

	I spent years just dealing with it, as I believed in doing 
diligence to my support box, weeding through i t by hand; after years of 
spending a minimum of 2 hours (or more!) per day on support email, I went 
like everyone else -- aggressive filtering, and pointing people to FAQs 
more, and automated tools. Its less personal for sure, but its how one 
'survives' :/

	For a good many years I was very proud of my personal touch; it 
was a huge selling point I think. Alas, all good things..

# Also, try posting a new thread with subject "Attention Jeff!" or 
# something similar.  I think he's got a scanner running on the e-mail 
# stream to pick up things like that.

	*g*

# I can attest to the fact that he's always given excellent support, so 
# there must be a rational reason he hasn't replied.

# P.S. He is considering resurrecting Shadow as a portable app, but as you 
# might expect, that is a whole new project.

	A very difficult problem; iphone versus Palm Pre versus RIM versus 
Android versus webapp versus native for various platforms. *grumble* 
Mobile dev was always a minefield, but it only got worse :)

		jeff

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