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Some Wordsearch customers seem really upset at Faithlife for making them (eventually) have to switch from Wordsearch to Logos if they wish to continue to use their library of content they have purchased from Wordsearch over the years.

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EVERY ONE of these customers can STILL USE WORDSEARCH WITH OUR FULL LIBRARIES JUST LIKE WE DID LAST WEEK while Faithlife works to complete the process of transferring our libraries over to Logos. Some of these customers will not be able to use Logos this week to prepare sermons, lessons, etc. Some customers have seen many of their volumes transferred over but are still waiting for some more to get there. Some customers (LIKE ME) are, for some reason, having to wait longer than some other customers to get their libraries transferred over into Logos to be available to use them.My sermons don't get written instantly for me just because I want them to be done - I have to actually spend hours and hours working on them first before they are ready. And then they HAVE CHOSEN TO add those titles - once the process is completed - into the libraries of any Wordsearch customers who owned those titles when they were acquired by Faithlife.

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This is a significant process that likely requires reformatting of data, along with exhaustive manual proofing of every single volume before giving it the green light to be ready to use in Logos.

What Faithlife HAS CHOSEN TO DO, to the best of my understanding, is to begin the process of taking a large number of Wordsearch titles that were not in Logos prior to the acquisition from Lifeway and importing these titles/licenses into Logos.

This is a ton of manpower and resources and time, with no initial revenue to offset the business costs of doing so.

What Faithlife H AS CHOSEN TO DO, to the best of my understanding, is to AUTOMATICALLY transfer every book in every Wordsearch customer's library that has an equivalent book in Logos TO LOGOS FOR FREE.

What Faithlife HAS CHOSEN TO DO, to the best of my understanding, is to offer Logos to Wordsearch customers for free.

They also COULD have offered to import Wordsearch licenses into Logos for a nominal fee, or at a 50% discount of their typical Logos price for each item in the library.

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After all, they have years of developmental costs invested in Logos, and they have no obligation to simply give it away free to anyone if they choose not to do so.

Faithlife COULD have chosen to purchase Wordsearch, then give all users an ultimatum of moving their library to Logos only after users agreed to purchase a base version of Logos at an exorbitant cost.

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If that had been their plan, then every Wordsearch user would have eventually lost their entire library of content purchased over the years when their computer eventually died, or when an OS upgrade prevented Wordsearch from running, or when a software bug eventually broke the code. This happens all the time in the software industry.

Faithlife COULD have chosen to purchase Wordsearch, maintain the software for a couple of years while encouraging users to switch over to Logos through special incentivized offer, and then quietly let the product die.

WHO KNOWS whether they had Wordsearch ready to go for the next version of MacOS coming out soon! Lifeway did provide a "work around" by offering an online login to a server that ran a version of Wordsearch, but there were a ton of limitations and frustrations with that as well. Last year, when MacOS went to 64-bit only, Wordsearch quit working on the latest version of MacOS - IN SPITE OF HAVING SEVERAL MONTHS OF DEVELOPER LEAD TIME TO PREPARE IT, Wordsearch did not run on the latest MacOS until just in the past couple of months. It was never a native MacOS App, it was always run through an emulator, and it was very "kludgy" at times.

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Wordsearch for Mac has always straggled behind Wordsearch for PC.

But about 10 years ago I switched over to Mac and haven't looked back. When I started out on Wordsearch, I was a Windows guy all the way.

Lifeway's track record at supporting Wordsearch varied, depending on what OS you used.

I have no doubt Lifeway made a profit off of doing so (I know I would have wanted to if I were the owner and sold it to another company). Faithlife didn't sneak in and steal our software, Lifeway sold it (and the Wordsearch customer base) to Faithlife.

Lifeway CHOSE to sell Wordsearch to Faithlife.

But here are a few points I've been thinking about that might be helpful to others who, like me, don't have their libraries up and available yet in Logos. I'm just some guy, not affiliated with Lifeway/Wordsearch or Faithlife/Logos companies, who happens to be a bivo pastor and who has been using Wordsearch since I first got WS5 in 2001 - so 19 years at this point. Sounds like there's some real anger in this thread, and a few others out there in this forum right now.