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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by ilovezfs » Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:02 pm

grahamperrin wrote:I'm seasoned enough to take (and enjoy) some friendly mockery … keep it coming … no amount of banter will sway me from an optimistic outlook to this  :D

Good. As long as you know I'm just messing with you Graham.

And what's wrong with Bitcoin?
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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by grahamperrin » Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:18 pm

Of course I know :-) but thanks for checking.

Bitcoin might be groovy for youngsters and bit-heads, but I'm happily stuck in my ways with good old fashioned cash for ninety-nine percent of my disposable income. I'll use a card for the occasional online payment but for me, having cash in hand – more significantly, handing cash to another person – is a great way of avoiding debt. Touch it, see it go … so much more tangible and educational than e-commerce.

l'm certainly up for crowdfunding and so on towards very rapid opening of source, but I'm not a purist about total openness.
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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by ilovezfs » Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:26 pm

grahamperrin wrote:Of course I know :-) but thanks for checking.

Bitcoin might be groovy for youngsters and bit-heads, but I'm happily stuck in my ways with good old fashioned cash for ninety-nine percent of my disposable income. I'll use a card for the occasional online payment but for me, having cash in hand – more significantly, handing cash to another person – is a great way of avoiding debt. Touch it, see it go … so much more tangible and educational than e-commerce.

l'm certainly up for crowdfunding and so on towards very rapid opening of source, but I'm not a purist about total openness.

Please tell me you at least invest in the stock market.
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Post by grahamperrin » Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:42 pm

Honestly, I have no idea whether you're kidding! Stock market, no, it never occurred to me. I do have some small unclaimed prizes from Premium Bonds that my mum got for me when my granddad died in the 1970s.

<<-- that's me, that is. 405-line receivers gathering dust in the bedroom (cats take turn sleeping atop a seven-foot stack of them) and a first generation iPhone.
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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by ilovezfs » Mon Jun 24, 2013 2:02 pm

I wasn't kidding at all. Surely there's room in that picture for a book about Finance too.
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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by zigmoo » Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:18 am

leeb wrote:I hope we'll get at least one official statement on it as well. Like others I had been heartened by Mr Robinson's post in the update request thread:
MSR734 wrote:Everyone, this is Michael Robinson, VP, Marketing for GreenBytes. I apologize for the radio silence re: ZEVO. I know everyone is waiting for some news on the future of the product. We are lining a few more things up internally, and you should be seeing a news story on GreenBytes and the future of ZEVO very soon - likely within the next week or so. Many thanks for your patience.

Even if it's just to throw in the towel it'd be nice if they'd communicate directly one last time, rather then through a third party. I'm sorry this never got more attention and that we didn't have the opportunity to financially support it directly, but perhaps it was inevitable given GreenByte's business focus that 10C was purely a talent and IP acquisition, not about the product.

Yes, I appreciate their candor as well...

I wonder if a Kickstarter-style funding effort could fund future development? I'd certainly pay for that. I love and NEED my Zevo Silver, and as far as I know, there's nothing comparable on the horizon.
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Post by grahamperrin » Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:07 am

Silver?

(Just checking …)
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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by emory » Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:16 pm

ZFS-on-OS-X is a niche business of a niche business, but there are a lot of professionals that just aren't at all aware of it. With the appropriate Product Manager, it could be a very popular product.
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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by emory » Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:21 pm

ilovezfs wrote:
grahamperrin wrote:
monkeyfoahead wrote:… This whole …

Included significant fixes for reproducible kernel panics with Mountain Lion less than two weeks after the first release, which made my subsequent experience with ZEVO on Mountain Lion more than acceptable.

Apple makes Developer Previews available long before actual release. No Mac software company has an excuse for not having a tested, compatible version ready to go as soon as the new OS is released, if not sooner. This is like paying your taxes or feeding your children. It's not praiseworthy. It's expected. If this is the best compliment we can dream up, that is very telling. Similarly, fixing critical bugs immediately is mandatory not anything to write home about.


A lot of household consumers/users of OS X have been repeatedly boned by companies like Adobe and Intuit relying on deprecated technology and not doing much of anything with their products to change that. When you also consider that companies like Symantec completely f*ck up enterprise users as well by foolishly assuming people using PGP Disk will check for an update with their vendor before installing a patch from Apple, it's rather pleasant to see people that don't wait for break-fix time but actually put in the development effort they should. I agree it's not praiseworthy in an of itself, but in contrast to some really shitty (and very large) vendors out there it is notable and one reason why smaller development efforts and software companies (e.g. OmniGroup) get my business before others when I'm spending my own money.
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Re: Zevo for sale

Post by ilovezfs » Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:27 pm

Well actually what happened was that GreenBytes did wait for it to break, and then released a fix two weeks later. So actually they did wait for break-fix time.
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