Installers for Mac / Linux?

[Richard Gaskin]

Derek Bump wrote:
> My suggestion would be to follow what is traditional for the platform. A 
> setup from for Windows.  A DMG for MacOS X.

Amen, brother.

I love DMGs for many reasons, not the least of which is that it 
liberates us from the strange pricing practices of so many installer 
vendors:

There are a couple that have a one-time fee for their Windows version, 
but require annual per-product fees for their Mac version.

Since these companies started out on the Mac I'm surprised they've 
chosen to add to the "Mac tax", but homey don't that game anymore -- 
it's DMGs all the way for me, and adios to anti-Mac pricing.


With one vendor, moving to DMGs has also helped me stop rewarding dumb 
behavior:  they allow you to purchase a new license quickly and 
conveniently online, but renewals require downloading a PDF, printing 
it, faxing the physical document back to them, and waiting until the 
next morning when their staff arrives to process their fax orders.  When 
I wrote to ask if renewals could be made as simple as new purchases, 
their answer amounted to "Because that's how we do things."
So this is how I do things:  I make DMGs, and they're not my vendor 
anymore. :)

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