Well said! Graham (Indy licence holder and Kickstarter contributor).
> On 14 Aug 2015, at 14:12, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> wrote: > > Not contributing time and code does not necessarily make one a leech! Many > of us contributed monetarily to the kickstarter, and I believe that earns > us just as many beech points as anybody. Climb down off that high horse. > We can hardly see you way up there. > > Everyone should be able to have input, IMHO. > On Aug 14, 2015 6:04 AM, "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> illustrates to me that the community is very concerned about the >>> possibility of a two-tiered livecode environment where we need to pay >> extra >>> to get added premium features that we all will want. >>> >> >> I wasn't going to post but this is such and oxymoron, and so prevalent here >> I just can't constrain myself. >> >> I'm not a big Dual Licence user but of those companies I deal with that do >> such a thing, it seems this is EXACTLY what happens, open source users >> DON'T get what the premium users are paying for. Lets take just one small >> example: MySQL, where an Enterprise license only costs US5000 as year. Lets >> see what features they get that the Community Users don't get: >> >> MySQL Fabric >> MySQL Partitioning >> MySQL Utilities >> Storage Engine: NDB >> MySQL Enterprise Dashboard >> MySQL Enterprise Advisor >> MySQL Query Analyzer >> MySQL Replication Monitor >> Hot Backup for InnoDB >> Full, Incremental, Partial, Optimistic Backup >> Full, Partial, Selective, Hot Selective Restore >> Encryption and Compression >> Point-in-Time-Recovery >> MySQL Enterprise Authentication >> MySQL Enterprise Encryption >> MySQL Enterprise Firewall >> MySQL Enterprise Audit >> Thread pool >> HA using Oracle VM Template >> HA using Oracle Linux and DRBD >> HA using Oracle Clusterware >> HA using Solaris Clustering >> HA using Windows Clustering >> Configuration and Provisioning >> Automatic Scaling >> Management and Monitoring >> ... >> and the list goes on and on. >> >> For the "World's most popular open source database" there seems to be a >> MASSIVE difference between the features the Community gets compared to >> those who purchase and Enterprise license. From my perspective LiveCode Ltd >> seem to be dragging their feet a bit and if I'd purchased an Enterprise >> License I might wish to complain that I'm not getting enough 'extras'. >> >> I, personally think I've got excellent value for money from LiveCode Ltd. I >> got what I wanted from the KickStarter campaign plus more. But maybe I just >> have a far more realistic view on life, the universe, and software >> development. >> >> Where I live and work there is no social security, if you don't work, you >> don't eat. It's survival of the fittest. The thought of people just >> leeching off society is just abhorrent. It's interesting how such attitudes >> make a community work, thrive and survive. >> >> So please, when you post negative comments about all that is wrong with the >> LiveCode Community, please include an estimate of the number of hours a >> week you spend posting to this list, and the number of hours you spend >> adding to Community Edition - either directly to the Engine/IDE or some >> Community Software like lcVCS or GLX2. Because from my perspective the only >> worrying concern with regard to LiveCode Community is the number of leeches >> compared to the numbers actually contributing. >> >> 1 hr posting / 0 hrs improving LC Community - I'm a leech. >> >> I find it interesting that the few open source communities I deal with, all >> of them suffer the same situation, those that expend the most ($, time and >> effort) in the Community seem to complain the least (as seen by the few >> previous posts focusing on what can be done to get lcVCS really working) >> and those that expend the least complain the most. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
