TurboCASH Shop

[Philip Coepman]

"You have sent me this e-mail 3 times as well as many others I receive
each day (numerous times) from Turbo Cash soliciting business – if I had
know this was the case I would not have changed my accounting package
from Pastel to Turbo Cash. I would rather pay the premium and not be
constantly harassed by you and your staff. Please note we have taken out
a support contract with Turbo Cash and if we need anything we will
contact you."

Bradley - definitely not wanting to hassle you. I can either have you on
the database or have you off. I currently don't have a "noemail" flag. I
will look into this. If I take you off you will not hear from us again.

Our web site is full of explanations of the Open Source concept, so I
don't want to go into it in detail here. The problem (and opportunity
for us all) is that TurboCASH is a living project that changes weekly.
It is distributed and there are now over 30 000 users and hundreds of
consultants, agents and accountants involved. It is my job as project
leader to coordinate and drive this community. The vast majority of the
users want to be involved in those changes, (for example with the dot
matrix drivers, or a new versions of the software, or when the next
training is). Our Development is guided by the feedback that we get from
users like yourself. Particularly from our best supporters (those that
take support contracts)

As for the selling of products to the users, we provide a R 10000 a year
product for free. TurboCASH is the full monty, not some cut down version
or "Express" product. So the way that Pastel would do this, is to send
you one email per year reminding you that the R 10 000 is due. They
would not have sent you another, they would simply "turn off " the
software.

Its like a sardine fishball, I have to offer opportunities to all
concerned (users get R 10 000 per year delivered to them free ) that is
what attracts them to the ball. The deliverers of this technology
require opportunities to keep them motivated to do this. I just haven't
worked out yet how top get people to do things for nothing. Beleive me I
am trying and I get pretty close to it. I personally spend over R 100
000 per month on development. This does not include the hundreds who
voluntarily contribute. I would have to cease development without
funding this. The only way that I know how to recover this, is to
solicit business from the users. MySQL has a dual licence. I guess what
I could do is make a offering to guys like yourself that are happy to
pay R 10 000 per year to use the software, put them under a commercial
licence and keep it in a separate database with no correspondence. It
would be unmanageable unless the number of users was high enough. I
don't think that there are enough people like yourself willing to pay to
move TurboCASH to a commercail licence. Do you think I would get enough
of these licences, would you be willing to join this?

If you stay on the list I will continue to send you email, hopefully it
does not abuse or offend you, but it has to be enough for me to sustain
the growing community around TurboCASH. I want, after all for you to
recommend and copy TurboCASH onto all your friends machines, not tell
them that you have falling victim to some mulitlevel marketing plot.
Going back to my first question, do want me to take you off or keep you
on the list?