OmniWeb 5.0 pricing

[Tom Ritch]

On Jan 2, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Phill R Kenoyer wrote:

> I'm not saying that I disagree with the upgrade price, rather I 
> disagree with the quality of OW software.  It is riddled with bugs and 
> problems.  I payed for it thinking that it would be stabilized, not 
> dumped.

Remember that OW depends on Apple's libraries and development system, 
much of which changed with Panther.  Before Panther OW was much more 
stable.  Since Panther introduced these problems a little over two 
months ago, OW programmers (all three or so of them?) have been chasing 
Panther-induced crashes for version 4.5.1 as well as adding features 
for version 5.  At least problems in going from one version of OS X to 
the next are trivial compared to Apple's Open Doc fiasco.

I payed for OW thinking it would be stabilized and improved, and have 
not been disappointed.  I am particularly pleased with the responses I 
have received to bug reports I have submitted, and with Omni's ongoing 
efforts to keep all of us here on the list informed of their progress.  
I look forward to a more stable 4.5.1, and to paying the small upgrade 
fee for the major enhancements coming in OW 5.  The closest I have to a 
  complaint is that I don't want to wait until February to get OW 5 and 
pay the money.   However I realize that OW 5 released in February will 
be much more stable than if released today, so I am not really 
complaining.

Tom