Rev 2.02/New pricing

[Geoff Canyon]

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 11:30  PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> I'm just raising my hand here in support of Chipp's note about the 
> splash screen. My company had a similar experience; we'd actually done 
> some of the early demos for Director under contract to Macromedia and 
> were building a decent business as Director developers. But our 
> clients indicated they didn't want *their* customers (or competitors) 
> to know what tool(s) they used and they insisted that we either 
> circumvent the Director splash screen or switch tools.
>
> We switched tools.
>
> I am absolutely all in favor of RR getting as much exposure and 
> publicity for the tool as possible because we all ultimately benefit 
> from that. But this splash screen is a proven bad idea which I really 
> hope RR reconsiders.

You wouldn't have to circumvent anything -- just purchase Studio and 
poof, no closing screen.

I disagree that a closing screen is a "proven bad idea." It seemed to 
serve Macromedia pretty well for over half a decade.

regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com