The fact that is so much discussion about the licenses shows there is a problem. LiveCode's pricing has been complex as long as I can remember. Most software you pay once, it's yours, you get free updates, and if there is a major upgrade, you pay for upgrade. Big, terrible companies like Adobe are entrenched in the market and can charge what they want. LiveCode is no Adobe yet!
On 4 May 2016 at 09:50, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > I think the community version would have > more community involvement if they gave > people more externals to show them how > to create externals. > > I get the feeling tje mothership does not > want community advancement externals. > > And so it is obvious everyone cannot be > involved in programming the open source > version for many different reasons. That > leaves people little chance to participate > by adding code. Use it, point out bugs > and pay money. That is not what I was > hoping for. > > JB > > > > > > > On May 3, 2016, at 7:56 PM, Robert Mann <r...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > I goes one of the central issue of a community version.. is.. community!? > > > > How to make people feel member of the community? get them involved? > > > > One way of doing that is to let people buy something maybe not much, but > > something. That was the idea of the pay once upgrade when you feel which > was > > tried before. > > > > Paradoxically, with the community version, the more we move ahead from > the > > great community foundation kickstart, the less there may be a feel of > > community!!?? what do you think? > > > > So maybe the question about Open source Edition and revenue? could be > > rephrased to something different like :: Open source edition and BENEFITS > > (of all kinds to the livecode ecosystem) ??? > > > > As an example, I'm pretty sure that many of us really like that > > language/tool and would take some time to promote it e.g. at schools. > That > > would need organization and incentives, like.. the benefit of more > > affordable commercial license schemes that could even be traded to help > out > > people start up something. And that would cost nothing and could be an > > important medium term benefit. > > > > On the whole, i feel mothership is kind of into shyzophrenic situation > :: > > the move to open source certainly was a generous move, event though at > that > > time it may just have been death and exit otherwise. And the other hand > we > > feel a commercial pressure with prices going up and up for the little > rock > > of commercial folks. > > > > I was surprised to see that the "community" developments fundings were > not > > so successful. it was a way of carrying forward the initial kickstart > move. > > Maybe that should be tried agin, possibly with a different organization : > > would it change the results if the community participated to selection of > > developments proposed? or even.. drove them!? well hum, that would be > > revolution that would imp lie seeing up some kind of representation of > that > > community. > > > > Livecode Community could be well used for a lot of "community" actions in > > our societies. I though personally of attending the "units debuts comity > of > > computing" in Paris just to talk to them about livecode because they > need to > > build a set of tools and livecode community would be just right. and that > > would greatly expose livecode (they gather 250 geeks from Paris.. > > imagine..). > > > > Now that mothership has embarked on the community track, the next step > could > > well be to get together some kind of representation of the group to > > exchange, meet, discuss and relay etc with the objective to establish > such a > > community feeling?? > > > > And that could have a huge potential to motivate, generate many actions > that > > bring those many benefits, that are hard to see yet with a close view to > > revenues. > > My cents! > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revenue-and-the-Open-Source-edition-tp4704079p4704180.html > > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Kaveh Bazargan Director River Valley Technologies @kaveh1000 +44 7771 824 111 www.rivervalleytechnologies.com _______________________________________________ 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
