I had similar feelings, (I have taken almost every pitch to "pay in advance for
X number of years for this discount or that… ) so when we get hit up again for
development that one would hope would be just part of the product road map, it
does indeed seem odd. Even "advanced smooth scrolling graphics" seems odd to be
funding, since all this is doing is bring the LC mobile on parity with any
other smooth flowing app.
This is terribly obvious, but just to say it all again:
Thinking about it, one has to appreciate the challenge the company faces.
Having gone open source, Livecode moves to a world where everyone and his kid
sister thinks programming is free. PHP, Javascript, python, CSS…people living
in those world just don't pay for their tools.
So if open source users are going up (which apparently they are)… that doesn't
help us (to say the obvious)
If not enough of them are using LC to build products for sale to support
themselves, OR are not using the tools in-house inside Enterprise (like we do
here, even though we are non -profit we do have software budgets) where budgets
are such that the ROI on paid license(s) is well worth it. And it would be easy
enough for some unscrupulous for-profit company to have 5 coders on community
and only one license and pretty much get away with it…(which is cheating of
course)…
So If the user "pie" of those whose are paying <> equal $ to support the
company and + hours for features, how does LC handle this, to stay alive? And
we all want it to stay alive…right?
I was hoping to talk to Kevin about some other ideas for solutions… but he is
busy. Perhaps I need to fly to Scotland for tea. In the meantime, I
voted/pledged for the DataGrid2/GraphicsUpgrade.
Brahmanathaswamai
On 6/24/17, 7:41 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Alex Tweedly via use-livecode"
<use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
So the Feature Race lets me choose between "Hosting debugger" and
Datagrid 2.
Hmpphhh!
<puts on Grumpy Old Man t-shirt ...>
I have a hard time voting for, or funding, Hosting debugger. I already
paid for that, back in 2009.
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