Why I won't use your software

Here are a few reasons I will not use your software.

It's too new.
It's too old, meaning, not being supported anymore.
No one else uses it. (How am I supposed to get help?)
It's not Free Software. (Open Source is not good enough for me.)
You're developing it too fast. IE, you go from 1.6 to 1.7 to 1.8 to 1.9 in a matter of months. Rule of thumb: Major versions once a year, minor versions once a month.
You aren't doing versioning right. I should be able to upgrade 1.6 to 1.7 without any changes on my part.
You aren't using standard libraries or standards that are widely adopted.
You didn't package it properly. (using zip is a bad, bad smell.)
You make it hard to install or you have a custom installation process that matches nothing else.
You depend on software that is either too old or too new.
Your software smells like a fad: A new idea that lots of young people like but that sounds like we've done this before just as a different name.
Your documentation sucks or doesn't exist.
Your sample code is not code you want to put in production.
You claim the backing of major companies but can't seem to show anyone who actually uses it.
You have bugs and bugs upon bugs that suggest major problems in your basic design.
Your software is needlessly complicated or specific.

Software that I don't use:

There are a lot more. You can probably add your own to the list.

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