R.P.RUIZ  Hi Dom21,

Good question, and thanks for asking. Here's the URL to the pricing information: https://www.vaultletsoft.com/products/vaultletsuite-client-pricing.html

Best,

Rick  
(Version 2.6.2)

R.P.RUIZ  Hi Peter,

Your observation is partially correct - The VaultletSuite 2 Go is simultaneously a free, demo, and an payed online subscription service.

That means that it's a hybrid, and thus has no easily checked off category that it belongs to.

Here's a bit of detail on the differentiation between the 3 type of free and pay subscriptions:

1) Basic subscription: individuals get this for free for personal use. This option could be considered freeware.

2) "Blue" subscription: non-profits, educational institutions and the press get this type of account for free, renewable on a yearly basis. Everyone else gets their first year for free and thereafter either pays for it (with money, referrals, and/or beta testing) service or drops back to the "Basic" option. This option could be considered demoware-ish.

3) "Gold" subscription: everybody pays for this, the groups who get the "Blue" version for free get this version for half price. This is a straight up "pay to use" service.

What's the distinction in functionality between the three types?

1) The "Basic" accounts provide individuals with easy to use, multilingual and portable crypto as an online service only.

2) "Blue" accounts have numerous email propagation control and controlled attachment viewing features added in.

3) Finally, the "Gold" accounts (will) allow senders to control a number of different file types sent as attachments.

And now, for the final distinction between the "Basic", "Blue" and "Gold" accounts: the "Blue" and "Gold" accounts should both include offline functionality by the time the VaultletSuite 2 Go reaches v3.0.

I hope this helps to explain the differences in pricing, licensing and functionality. Thanks for taking the time to comment on the lack of clarity in published license type.

Best regards,

Rick  
(Version 2.6.2)

R.P.RUIZ  Hello Bug,

Your comments about trusting the updater module are right on the money, and will be addressed in the next major update, v2.4. The ability to inform the user about the motivation and extent of the changes is currently stubbed in within the Updater module - as a result of you taking the time to speak your mind, it's now at the top of the list of v2.4's new features.

Personally, I'm fond of Firefox's update process, which links to a web page that allows you to drill down to see what is the motivation for the update before proceeding. I envision doing something similar to this.

For the record, most incremental updates only touch two jar files in the installation directory: the main VaultletSuite jar, and the translation jar. The two of these files amount to about 300K, and are simply swapped with the outdated jars as the Updater finishes up. Of course, without being notified, you wouldn't know that, so I can definitely empathize with your position.

Concerning "medium sized" updates (as the Updater module describes 3-4 MB downloads to users), the changes slated to be made to the Updater module for v2.4 will require that the outdated Updater download a partial installation utility similar to (but significantly smaller than) the original installer which will then autorun, but still allow you to exit from the process if you wish. After that, future "medium sized" updates will contain an option to manually download and install them yourself too.

I'll make sure that everybody's advised of the 2.4 release before it takes place, so that it's not a surprise. Between now and then, there may be a couple of patches released that deal with improvements to the new account wizard and bug patches, but I don't envision them being obligatory (since the bugs fixed don't jeopardize security or have destructive effects), so you can skip them until v2.4 is released.

Thanks again for your feedback. As a result, everybody benefits

Rick  
(Version 2.3)