so hydra charges for firmware?
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so hydra charges for firmware?
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread...62#post3204662
I know that motec, haltech, accel, 034efi, autronic, and TEC do not charge for firmware. For $2k, i think free firmware updates are justified.
another nguyen for MS.
I know that motec, haltech, accel, 034efi, autronic, and TEC do not charge for firmware. For $2k, i think free firmware updates are justified.
another nguyen for MS.
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With a lot of software you don't "own" it but lease it, year after year. Keep up the annual maintenance and you can run the software with "free" updates. As soon as it lapses, you no longer have the right to use the software ... and in a lot of cases the software self destructs. Nothing new here.
Apple doesn't charge for updates, major revisions yes. Same as MS, Adobe and the rest of the commercial software vendors.
Do you think it reasonable that a one time purchase of software would entitle you to every release after that?
I'm assuming that this is a major change in the Hydra Firmware, and not just a bunch of bug fixes. If there is a significant amount of new features and functionality it is reasonable they are charging for it.
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bug fixes should be free of course. adding features is different. it's up to the company.
i love the "why didn't you tell us when we bought ours a month ago?" guy.
because they would have lost your sale, jackass!
whatever--rapid development cycles are rapid development cycles. I can bitch that I paid 2800 for a 34" tube widescreen tv 6 years ago all i want but it wont put a 50" plasma in my living room.
once hydra figures out how to make firmware-only changes that don't require hardware changes, they can probably release new firmware for free more easily. that's how it works with the other guys. they dont change their hardware every 3 days.
i love the "why didn't you tell us when we bought ours a month ago?" guy.
because they would have lost your sale, jackass!
whatever--rapid development cycles are rapid development cycles. I can bitch that I paid 2800 for a 34" tube widescreen tv 6 years ago all i want but it wont put a 50" plasma in my living room.
once hydra figures out how to make firmware-only changes that don't require hardware changes, they can probably release new firmware for free more easily. that's how it works with the other guys. they dont change their hardware every 3 days.
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I thought about buying Hydra long and hard before I made my decision to get MS because I was worried about efficacy, which I now understand was not a concern.
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