That brings up a very interesting question about the license being a subscription instead of you owning the program like you did with Revolution Enterprise.
People value their software and the programming tools they spend time using to make it. What if for some reason or another LiveCode went out of business. You might have spent years making your program and then like happened with me and many other hyperCard users you were hit with the reality hyperCard would not run on the new Mac OS. Apple in the beginning said the best programs would not be seen for about 10 years. The point is even if you have a commercial license and LiveCode goes out of business you will not be able to develop your program even if the current update will do everything you need. You can say LiveCode will protect you and allow you to develop forever using your current license. But you know how courts, attorneys, license etc. are and just because you think that would be the proper thing to do you do not know if they could legally allow you do do it even if they wanted to. People who paid money might be able to stop them from allowing you to develop software. And believe me some people will buy companies just to stop you from marketing a new product they do not want on the market. John Balgenorth On Sep 18, 2014, at 12:29 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how RR would stay in business at all if all their > licenses were free. If it's true that only 5% of the user base actually pays > for the product, how else should RR get funding? _______________________________________________ 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
