Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing

2016-05-03 Thread Mike Kerner
As a paying customer, I can confirm, that we do receive surveys. It might be three or four per year, and the questions might not always be the ones I wish were being asked, but we are being queried. On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I'd like to remind everyone that there is

Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing

2016-05-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'd like to remind everyone that there is another aspect to developing in livecode which probably keeps us all engaged, beyond the profit potential: It's damned fun! I doubt I will ever be able to produce a commercially marketable application, and yet I have writted a number of useful aplication

Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing (was: Standalones on el Capitan?)

2016-05-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
On May 2, 2016, at 05:56 , Paul Dupuis mailto:p...@researchware.com>> wrote: For every organization delivering a product, that organization has to make the product's cost vs value work for THEM. If they charge too little, they go out of business. If they charge too much, no one buys it. This ass

Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing

2016-05-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 02/05/2016 14:50, RM wrote: Well, this is, very much, Livecode's dilemma; and, just possibly, one of the ways to sort things out is to listen to what their customers / potential customers / past customers have to say; and as Livecode have not sent out any significant "feelers" to find out wha

Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing (was: Standalones on el Capitan?)

2016-05-02 Thread David V Glasgow
> On 2 May 2016, at 1:56 pm, Paul Dupuis wrote: > > This really is a pointless discussion and I know people will find that > comment offensive and it is not intended to be. I follow these discussions with interest, and don’t find them pointless at all. It is quite helpful to understand the

Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing

2016-05-02 Thread RM
On 2.05.2016 15:56, Paul Dupuis wrote: This really is a pointless discussion and I know people will find that comment offensive and it is not intended to be. No, I cannot see how that is offensive. BUT, water does wear away stones, and while water does not wear away stones overnight, it does

Endless discussion on licensing and pricing (was: Standalones on el Capitan?)

2016-05-02 Thread Paul Dupuis
This really is a pointless discussion and I know people will find that comment offensive and it is not intended to be. For ANY product - even Free ones - there are people who will feel that the "value" for the "cost" (whether that cost is money, time, whatever) is not what it "should be". The high