Mapinfo 7.5
Shahar
free?
I need ver. 7.5
Thanks
Thomas Bacon
still be able to get a license for 7.5 from Pitney Bowes...
Tom Bacon
Graduate GIS Engineer
Asset Management South
Tel: 01444 472380
www.mouchel.com
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Bill Thoen
For free? No, that would be software piracy. I'm not sure, but you may still be able to get a license for 7.5 from Pitney Bowes...
Richard Greenwood
Ah - I still keep 8.0 around. That's my vote for the best version!
I think it's permissible to run an older version as long as you have a
license for a version >= to that version. But I'm not a lawyer...
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Gentreau
For a developer who has the current version licenced, would they be prepared
to supply previous versions for compatibility testing?
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Richard Greenwood
> It would be interesting to hear from PBBI on this.
> For a developer who has the current version licenced, would they be prepared
> to supply previous versions for compatibility testing?
Gentreau,
That is certainly a reasonable question, but I will guess that the
answer is 'no' because the PBBI business model needs to encourage
users to move to new versions. And helping developers support older
versions is contrary to that business model, which is unfortunate. But
MapInfo certainly has better backward compatibility than many software
that are based on the "new version" business model. And when they
don't/can't support and older version they tell you so. For example,
try opening any ESRI file created in a newer version and you'll be
greeted with "Error opening file XYZ" which always stumps me because I
figure the file is corrupt or some such thing. MapInfo has the good
grace to say something to the effect of "Can not open file XYZ,
version ABC of MapInfo can" so at least you know what you're problem
is.
Having said that, and being an occasional developer myself, it's a
pity that we as a community can't provide some mechanism for testing.
Like a public Amazon AMI with multiple versions of MI installed. If
you wanted to test your app you would spin up an instance, pay for
your time at $0.12/hour, and terminate it when you were done.
Maintaining a public AMI costs $0.10/GB/month for storage so a 20GB
Windows AMI would cost $24/year.
SCISOFT
offering:
In my view, the only compelling reason for PBBI to allow acquisition of an
older version of MapInfo Professional would be to allow developers of
extensions to MI to test that their products functioned with those older
versions.
Also, in my view, it is to their advantage that existing licensed users of
the older versions get satisfaction from the product they are using, rather
than moving to another non-PBBI product (rather than buying a newer version
of MapInfo Professional, even at upgrade pricing).
So, added functionality to the every-day users' (say) MapInfo v6.0 or 7.5 -
provided by developer extensions - would benefit rather than harm the PBBI
'business model'.
'Products' might be both a saleable MBX (or other extension), or one made
available free to the community.
But if I were making such decisions for PBBI, I would require the applicants
for such licensing to jump through some hoops, to prove that they were
offering something worthwhile.
Ian Thomas
Scientific Software
Bill Thoen
Shahar
Is it possible?
On 10 נובמבר, 06:40, Bill Thoen <bth...@gisnet.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bill Thoen <bth...@gisnet.com> wrote:
> >> On 11/9/2011 7:44 AM, Thomas Bacon wrote:
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> >> For free? No, that would be software piracy. I'm not sure, but you may
> >> still be able to get a license for 7.5 from Pitney Bowes...
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> >> PBBI isn't going to sell anyone old versions of their software. Even though
> >> 7.5 - 7.8 was probably the best version of MapInfo relative to its day, old
> >> versions of MapInfo are only available from the warez sites in the
> >> underground web. If you feel like surfing through sites where people don't
> >> believe in intellectual property rights.
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> > Ah - I still keep 8.0 around. That's my vote for the best version!
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> > I think it's permissible to run an older version as long as you have a
> > license for a version >= to that version. But I'm not a lawyer...
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> I still think 7.8 was the best one. No release since has had the same level of new, useful features. It was quick and ran well with the processors of it's day and what it didn't do you could add functionality as needed. The interface is clean and has good contrast. Very easy to drive. Not like today's washed out blue hue front end where you can't tell anything apart. That was pretty much a step backwards. I'd prefer high-contrast controls with simple, clear design. And a system font with some weight to it so the menu text doesn't soak into the background. It's supposed to be an interface, not an art show.
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Uffe Kousgaard
software they no longer sell?
Why is it you need version 7.5 in particular?
Shahar
I have an old computer and that version worked like a charm on it.
Every other version was a little bit slow.
Does anyone have a link for a 7.5 trial version??
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