Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

I just read about a new breakthrough in FRM. If everything is positive. Does that possibly mean an upcoming OF update including this breakthrough?

As I said in the previous answer, I have too much to accomplish in too short a time to go back and rebuild OF, no matter how amazing this new potential breakthrough does or does not turn out to be.

Shannon, thank you for your transparency. I'm very interested in trying out OF. What was making me hesitating jumping in vs taking the next purchased and unused program from my library was the time commitment (8 months).

Knowing that the standalone FRM program (OF) update is a sure thing doesn't help to commit to OF now.

I think that from a marketing point of view, I would have preferred to not know about this FRM breakthrough before I make my purchase of OF.

Why invest 8 months when I know that to get the optimal results, I might need a second 8 months long run?

Something that you could say to appease my concern is that the next OF update will happen within the next 8 months and will be compatible with the current version so that people that are currently running it can complete their 8 months run with the upgrade.

I really don't care if the upgrade is free or not. My concern isn't monetary. It is about time efficiency.

If my suggestion is something possible, I think that it would pretty much mean double income from a single program with the current satisfied users...

I don't know where you get that an upgrade to OF is a sure thing, I said I will not be upgrading it because I don't have time.  The next upgrade is likely to be a 6G version, which will not be even close to the first 6G program I have to build.  It won't be upgraded any time soon.  You're most likely looking at more than a year before I build OF again.  Which was part of why I didn't mind making the announcement.  We don't even know if the long term verification of this possibility will hold up.  FRM 4.9 is verified. The new discovery has not been verified or proven yet.  

I make announcements like that because it excites me,and I have nobody else to tell.  Nobody around me understands any of this, or, if they do, they don't care.  It's not about marketing.