Quote - so now you want everyone to go back and redo their zips and reupload them instead of using freely available converters to do the job.

Right?...I said that? It's much more sensible to expect thousands of content creators to redo all their work for me than to want SmithMicro to include the capability in their software to make that content fully usable. I provided the link because the term "obsolete" was being bandied about way too casually and that boat is an example that is anything but obsolete.

I'd also like everybody to get a big rope and pull my car to work so that I don't have to buy gas.

Seriously, I'm curious why people are so complacent about having to use workarounds to make their software work correctly. What's the downside of wanting software to be backwards compatible? Why should anybody want to use a workaround instead of wanting their software to work as well as it once did? What's the message that everybody wants to send to software companies--that backwards compatibility doesn't matter?--That we don't care if all the content we've bought and created doesn't work correctly with the new version of the software?

I can understand that some levels of backwards compatibility won't matter to people that never need it. Why bother weighing in to argue against it? Why would anybody prefer to have to use a free workaround instead of that capability being kept in the software that they paid hundreds of dollars for? I'd be interested in hearing how hard it was for the kind folks, that freely provided the RSR conversion programs to the community, to make the converters. It would be nice for SM to give them a few bucks to put it back into their software.

It's similar to arguing that there wasn't anything wrong with the StreetTrigger licensing agreement that gave them a nonexclusive ownership in every screenplay put on the site. It's one thing for budding screenwriters to be willing to risk that ownership to get their first screenplay produced. Why would those writers argue against having the licensing agreement being more fair to them?

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