[filmscanners] RE: Note to pre-1999 VueSmart purchasers of VueScan

["Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>]

> >... is ViewScan a "follow on" product to "Photosmart", in that
> >it basically was the same product, just a newer version...
>
> (As in earlier note, I meant VueSmart instead of Photosmart.)
>
> I found a more definitive answer to this question in a post from
> Ed Hamrick to the comp.periphs.scanners and rec.photo.digital
> newsgroups, 14 March 1999:
>
>   I changed the name of VueSmart to VueScan.  To paraphrase the
>   song - "It's my program, and I'll rename it if I want to." <smile>
>
>   I renamed it when I decided to support multiple scanner types.
>   Just think of VueScan 1.1 as VueSmart 8.1.

Certainly he has every right to re-name it, but it's the disposition of the
upgrades that would be a concern.  If he sold ViewSmart with an "unlimited
free upgrade" and then simply changed the name (though continued to develop
it), and now is not honoring the "unlimited free upgrades" that people who
purchased ViewSmart were told they would get (and I'm not saying this is the
case, as I don't know), then there might be cause for people who bought
ViewSmart to be upset.  Right?

Regards,

Austin

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