Thanks Richard, Both you and Mark helped explain things pretty good. The ability to develop your program with a free version and then buy a license later is a major plus.
That is similar to the Apple Developer Program which cost $99 per year. You can be a developer with Apple for free but you do not get beta versions etc, and then when you are ready to market your software you can pay the $99. In the meantime they provide you a lot of free code samples and information even if you have not paid the $99 yet. John Balgenorth On Sep 18, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > JB wrote: > >> ...here is a question about the indy license for $299. >> You can have sales up to 500k. They do not have much >> sales the first year and cancel the license. The next >> year sales are $2 million. Is there license to market >> the program still good? > > My understanding is that the license period covers the use of the IDE, and > that once an app made with has been deployed there is no time limit on the > standalone. > >> Certainly if they make that much it would seem idiotic >> to not support the software that made them money but >> you know people do some strange things. > > I think pretty much everyone wants to see the same thing: for all of us to > use LiveCode productively at as little cost as practical. > > The current pricing structure appears to strive for a balance with > predictable cash flows, in which everyone making money with LiveCode > contributes a small portion of that back to the core dev team to keep the > joint running, smaller companies making less money contribute less, and those > interested in proliferating free software under the GPL are invited to do so > at no cost under the LiveCode Community Edition. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
