Dear All
A couple of important announcements about EigenD Pro.
The first, and probably most exciting, announcement is that from today onwards EigenD Pro is becoming free software. The software development has transitioned to a community led project, the team of developers who make up that community (many of whom you probably already know) have all been given full access to all of the EigenD sources some time ago and they are now using them and doing some great work.
From now on EigenD Pro will be freely available for download on our website, including the current stable version, 2.0.74. To all those of you who have supported us by buying software over the last couple of years a big 'thankyou'. The revenue helped us to keep our full time development team in action a bit longer and enabled us to be in a position to give the community developers a great start.
The second announcement is that the community team have already put a release up of a new experimental branch, the 2.1.X series, and this can now be downloaded from the Experimental section of the website. It's a work in progress, but several people are already using it so I'd encourage you all to give it a go and let us all know how it goes. Congratulations to all of that team in getting this out there - it's a great start (it has lots of bug fixes and some nice improvements) and bodes very well for the future. Their names are listed in the release notes if you are interested in who is who, and if you are a developer and might be interested in helping out in any way please get in touch with any of us, you'd be very welcomed.
You can download the new 2.1, community built, experimental release here:
http://www.eigenlabs.com/downloads/releases/state/pro-experimental/
There will be another announcement in a day or two regarding the Eigengharp Alpha build (good news, not bad news, so those who have already ordered can relax!).
For those that bought software in the last year and are now annoyed that it's free (which is an understandable if slightly illogical feeling), we are offering a discount of £250 off the price of a Tau and £100 off the price of a Pico to customers who purchased Pro in the last 12 months, £100 off the price of a Tau and £50 off the price of a Pico to EigenD Base customers who purchased in the last 12 months. You'll need to redeem this offer in the next two months if you want to take it up as it will expire after that, to do so just write to us before you place an order on the website and we'll sort your order out with you.
If you have any questions, please post them here and I'll do my best to answer them when I get back tomorrow morning.
John
UK
