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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Kivio_mp: DON'T BUY IT
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn-gordon () home ! com>
Date:       2001-12-09 17:40:50
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At 08:46 AM 12/9/2001, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am new to this list, so forgive me if I am sending duplicate info...
>
>I recently started to work on my graduation and therefore needed a good
>drawing programme. The free Kivio looks so good that I enquired at The
>Kompany about their commercial version: Kivio_mp ($ 89,95). You know, I don't
>mind paying for GOOD and USEFUL software.
>
>So I bought it..... Stupid me.
>
>After several messages send to their President(...), I learned that Kivio_mp
>is BEING rewritten and lacks a lot of functionality which the free product
>offers!!! (E.g. snap-to grid: it is NOT included in the software I paid
>for!!!!!)

Sorry, I made a mistake - we have had snap to gride and snap to guideline 
since the last release.  In that release we also added non-standard 
guidelines such as diagonal and such (other than vertical and horizontal, 
which are already there).  I know you got this release.

>I explained tho their President, that I cannot make use of Kivio_mp and asked
>her to disable my download account and not charge the full fee.
>
>But they did not disable my account. And they DID charge the whole fee!
>
>
>So, dear readers, please stick with (the free) Kivio and DON'T buy Kivio_mp!!!
>
>(I am now using xfig, which nicely exports to EPS, so I can include the
>drawings in LyX.. Xfig is free of charge and ships with SuSE.)
>
>Sorry about the moaning, but I am very p'ed off.
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Huge Rademaker

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