Well, Mark, I like the word "creative" ) Hobbyists, students etc not able or willing to pay the full fees and still wishing to have some reflection of protecting code could form an association which would receive full rights from LiveCode to protect code in the name of the association, and all members of the association would have an internal agreement about protection. There could be an agreement that if such rights are claimed by a member then he could obtain them for a fee and change status, or leave the association and go for Indy or Business license.
If such association would pay 10,000 dollars a month to LiveCode, it would need 500 hobbyists and students paying 20 dollars a month to raise such money not counting big overhead costs and not making any profit which an association does not have to make. --- I am working in Africa a lot, mainly Togo, Ghana etc.. There is hardly any student able to survive a month, and his or her ability to pay would be zero. But it would be an excellent ground for LiveCode for really reach big masses of students and developers if we would promote it. A community version is essential, but also protected versions are of need. Where to get the funding? Aid programs? In any case, we are glad that we have a community version ! --- To put myself into the shoes of hobbyists/students in need of some kind of code protection: I personally would feel kind of pushed to order now at least an Indy license to not loose the opportunity to keep a low pricing schema later. It is only this one point which would make me a bit sour. Even if it is meant in a nice way, it is a kind of unpleasant feeling that now I must decide about something that I - hobbyist - may only need in future, or never will need at all, but should decide to pay right away to not loose the benefit of lower recurring payments. And then even today such Indy license is double the price that I would usually be willing to pay just to keep going without expectation of much reward. Just the price target - and the future price especially - would make me think a lot. Since it may become not affordable for a lot of people in near future, it triggers the thought of stepping out now. Or it is an incentive to step in now. So, from such point of view it become a kind of "futures" trading - with risks involved when leveraging the future. Well, there are equally valid other points of view, and I could also put myself into their shows including the shoes of the team itself. Roland On 29 February 2016 at 12:37, Mark Rauterkus <mark.rauter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bravo to Tore Nilsen in this thread. Spot on. > > I mighy call myself a Hobbyists too, but I LOVE the open source community > version. > > Those with extra cash who desire to support the Mothership may want to > invest into a new LiveCode feature from time to time. Or, attend a LiveCode > event. > > I think the open source business model is splendid. > > As a hobbyists, we need to be more creative. Sell your services, get a > retainer, do extras with the next upgrade to customize, make money on ads, > sell a book, be a paid speaker / presenter, etc. > > Face it, open source LiveCode is still impossible for 99.99% of the world > to modify and cheat you from. Yake and resell without permission. And if > that happens, the public scorn would be bad. The backlash would be ugly. > > Mark Rauterkus > _______________________________________________ > 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
