[cw-discuss] codeweaver beta vote ethics

[Jeremy White]

Hi Pere,

First of all - thanks for participating on the Compatibility Center -
we really appreciate that.

Second, I suspect we could make the distinction between voting
and pledging a bit more clear.  The idea is that being a customer
earns you a vote.  Non customers instead 'pledge'.  We try to
guide folks to those choices when they click on the
'I need this app to run' link in the compatibility center.

We then try to balance the demands of our customers
(represented both by tickets and votes) with the demands
of potential customers (represented by the pledges).

So there is absolutely no need to buy the product to
indicate that you have need of a given feature.

We are arguably a bit mercenary in that we do ask folks
to put their money where their mouth is.  That is, non
customers don't get a generic 'vote' - they instead need
to essentially say to us:  "If you fix this, I will buy X".
We tally the Xs and pursue the biggest ones first.

Candidly, we're a small company - we're not exactly
swimming in cash, so we need to be very careful with what
we do so as to maximize our ability to thrive and continue to
improve Wine.

Cheers,

Jeremy

pere villez wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Have tried to email about my concerns with regards the BETA testing
> process, but don;t seem to get anywhere. Have subscribed to the list but
> have no confirmation of this, so please forgive the maybe misplaced email.
> 
> thanks for the beta trial for this product. I really like the product
> 
> I have a login name and tried to vote for a product which im sure
> Codeweavers and other users might like to know works with your software.
> 
> Not sure about the ethics of getting people to pay to verify the
> compatibility of your product at BETA stage. I encourage the usability
> of your host environment testing third party products, but not sure I am
> confortable with the approach.
> 
> Because you have a good beta product I wanted to vote for a series of 
> Audio applications which I have been testing using the beta, however,
> you require us to purchase  it first (product or extension), yet no
> license or registration number is available. So what you seem to be
> asking as a company is for us to buy a beta product in advance so that
> we can vote whether it works with the products I want to use. Can yoiu
> see my dilema.
> 
> I would be glad to help with the robustness of your testing, by making
> sure that other users are encourage to explore the same third party
> products by vote.
> 
> Again, many thanks.  Pere Villez
> 
> ( A developer)
> 
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