Hi Kevin or any one else in the know As you may know, I am kind of tied perpetually to Porrima who still has a valid LC9 subscription (afaik) and, while I don't subscribe anymore since my company's (& health's) demise, I still offer cleanup and updates for bits I developed on their commercial software, built in LC5.0.2 (and still works just fine, with a little TLS(ecurity) hack). This, I know, will not be affected by LC Create.
I have two use-case questions: My first question is based on the case that if I were to develop on the LC9/LC10/Create versions of their software (which is needed to comply with various other security needs), do I ONLY pay for MY seat to develop my bits for them and THEY pay for both THEIR seats as required PLUS each end 'user' of their software which they build from their seat? As a quick follow-up to this, if the payment for end-users is never more than 5% of the app revenue, and only applies to revenue 'directly' generated by the app *if we use Create* to build apps for sale to the 'public' (by which I assume you mean any customer, business or public), not LC9 or 10, what actual percentage are we looking at if we only sell to one or two customers (small to medium businesses) who have sometimes just two or three actual users? Transparently, without going into private messages and conversations, what realistically are people (your customers) looking at? Cards on the table. The second is based on the scenario that those aforementioned customers occasionally have up to 20 or 30 people using the software during busy seasons. Do Porrima have to keep track and account for those fluctuations? Do other LC developers have to keep track of how many buyers of their software are still using it (by some kind of subscription or sign in method) and then work out what percentage they owe to you. And then, if they are on a free trial before getting a paid version, how does your 'phone home' system that people have been querying make allowance for those? This could get very complicated very quickly, especially for the small business just trying to get by but getting kicked out of business by yet another "buy-in to our Kickstarter (or else) before getting a finished product (maybe ever)" 'upgrade'. I'm trying to make this sound ok but I am getting the sick taste of Deja vu. I'm mentally much better now but this has been a bit of a trigger for me and, as I'm kinda forced into this messed up mess, I'm not entirely ok. Is it going to be, like LC10, another 4-6 years before LC Create becomes an RTM/GA/GR/GM/Stable Production release? Heck to that if that's the case. Sorry it's long but I think it's obvious why. Regards to all. Sean Cole Owner of Pi Digital Productions Ltd for 20 years before it's sad and untimely death (some might say murder ;)). _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
