Why maintain Metacard

[Mark Talluto]

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Richard MacLemale wrote:
>
>> So, hypothetically speaking, say I've got a friend who is interested 
>> in
>> MetaCard but never wanted to put out a grand to buy it.  The engine 
>> has
>> always been a free thing.  Now the GUI is open sourced, and free.  
>> Does this
>> mean that MetaCard 2.5 is now free?
>
> The GUI has always been free, as has Rev's.  You can download the 
> Starter
> Kit and play around within the script limits to you heart's content 
> with no
> money down.
>
> Only the MC IDE is moving to open source maintenance; the engine, of 
> course,
> remains proprietary.
>
> It seems perhaps the most hard-to-understand thing about the 
> announcement is
> how _little_ actually changes for us developers:  you still have your 
> choice
> of IDEs, both are still available in free versions with script limits, 
> just
> as it's been for years.


In other words, we are still going to need a valid license key to 
unlock newer versions of the engine.

Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com