[Lexicog] TshwaneLex trialware

[neduchi at NETSCAPE.NET]

 Dear David,
 THanks very much for this NECESSARY clarification. 
 
 I DID use your web form to make my request. It was thereafter that you got in touch with me with the "paid 
 support and backup service along with the software license". But I was interested ONLY in the academic license. I even explained to you that I WAS READY TO UNDERSIGN LEGAL DOCUMENTS THAT SHOULD MAKE ME PAY FOR THE COMMERCIAL LICENSE IF I GO COMMERCIAL. Nothing came of this.
 
 However, I am happy about the 'new' piece of information, the evaluation version. I shall now go back to your website and first make the request for the evaluation version as you explained. I hope to make ANOTHER request for the ACADEMIC version.
 
 All the best,
 Chinedu Uchechukwu
 Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg.
 
    
 -----Original Message-----
 From: david.joffe at tshwanedje.com
 To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 5:29 PM
 Subject: Re: [Lexicog] TshwaneLex trialware
 
     
 I'd like to clarify here, as this post by Chinedu gives several 
 false impressions. Firstly, we at no stage requested that data had 
 to be sent to us or 'uploaded to our servers' - we do not do this! 
 TshwaneLex is an off-the-shelf product and most of our clients 
 manage their own data entirely - we definitely do not expect clients 
 to send us data unless absolutely necessary. At the time, based on 
 your enquiries, we made an OPTIONAL offer to include some paid 
 support and backup service along with the software license, but you 
 were welcome to take just the license. Secondly, I don't understand 
 your remark that "nothing came of it" when you "tried" to obtain 
 TshwaneLex, as our website has for years had an order form on it 
 ('open 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year') - you've just never filled it 
 in.
 
 Also, we do make (and have always made) low-cost academic (non-
 commercial) licenses available, as well as low-cost licenses for 
 those working on endangered languages. Academic licenses can be 
 ordered anytime through our online order form, so it's false to 
 state that TshwaneLex is "not for academics". We have many academic 
 license users.
 
 At the time you enquired about TshwaneLex, we did not have 
 evaluation versions available, but we have more recently started 
 making evaluation versions available - if you're interested, they 
 can be requested via our website contact form.
 
 - David
 
 --
 TshwaneDJe Human Language Technology
 http://tshwanedje.com/
 
 On 6 Sep 2006 at 7:30, neduchi at netscape.net wrote:
 
 > 
 > 
 > I tried obtaining an educational version of the program some years
 > back, but nothing came out of it. I was requested to make available
 > the data I would be working on, to be uploaded on their server, and to
 > also pay an additional fee for the service (that I would not need in
 > the first place). And these conditions are without my having even
 > given the program a trial.
 > 
 > My impression is that the program is more for 'corporate' publishing
 > houses, and not for academics or those of us that are cash-strapped.
 > 
 > Chinedu Uchechukwu
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: wayne_leman at sil.org
 > To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
 > Sent: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:37 AM
 > Subject: [Lexicog] TshwaneLex trialware
 > 
 > Does anyone know if it is possible to download a version of TshwaneLex to
 > try it before we buy it? I would like to be able to try it to know if it
 > serves my needs. I would be happy using crippleware or time-limited
 > features, as long as I can have a fair go at seeing how the program works
 > and how my brain adjusts to its learning curve.
 > 
 > For those not familiar with TshwaneLex, its website is:
 > 
 > http://tshwanedje.com/tshwanelex/
 > 
 > Wayne
 > -----
 > Wayne Leman
 > Cheyenne dictionary online:
 > http://www11.asphost4free.com/cheyennedictionary/default. htm 
 
      
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