Hi Brahmanathaswami, Thank you for all your support, we really appreciate it.
Let me clarify a few things here. The Business Application Framework is a framework for writing more serious applications in LiveCode. It is far more than simply adding ³GitHub" to LiveCode. It brings in advanced concepts such as object-orientation, a model-view controller architecture and hooks into data sync and other heavyweight features. It is not for everyone. If you are an individual building an application then you might want to evaluate whether its worth the extra effort, level of complexity and abstractions associated with using it. If you want VCS in the Open Source Community or Indy edition, there is already lcVCS out there, together with various other solutions we¹ve seen people using. I would also remind you that LiveCode is Open Source (one of the biggest goals of the KS campaign, delivered a month after). What this means is that if you want you can build whatever features you like for it and make them available. If you need features along these lines then you can add them yourself. If you want features for free then you can make them, or look to see if they are part of our extensive crowd-funded road map and thus either being provided or coming shortly. If you want us to provide things outside of that then yes, it costs money for us to make them. The Business License also comes with things like the ability to build closed source applications for larger organizations and priority tech support. If you are building a serious application in a team then you¹re probably receiving considerable value from LiveCode. Options like this framework, together with things like the technical support options, might be a big help in getting additional value and productivity advantages from the platform. As far as your point about having a subscription into the future with Indy, we are still delivering that. Nothing has changed. These business features are brand new. They have not been mentioned in Kickstarter, in the HTML5 campaign or indeed in any other public announcement that I¹m aware of. We¹ve advertised a road map against these campaigns and are a good way through on delivering the largest, most extensive, most capable versions of LiveCode you¹ve ever seen. You¹re getting value from that road map with LiveCode today, last year, next year and you¹ve paid a fair sum for that value. I don¹t see what the problem is here. We do need to provide solutions for different markets. In a model where the vast majority of customers are using Open Source, we need to be providing good value to our higher end customers in order to be viable and thrive. That lets us continue to develop and support the platform proactively for everyone - including the Open Source users, the Indy users like yourself and the bigger business users who need these new features. It is even possible that some of these new business oriented features will filter down into Open Source at some point in the future. But for now, they are aimed carefully at the needs of our more serious business customers. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps On 12/08/2015 15:52, "Brahmanathaswami, Sannyasin" <bra...@hindu.org> wrote: >Where did this announcement appear? I haven't seen it in my email and it's >not in my spam. > >I have to agree. _______________________________________________ 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
