Vote to disable password protection for revMedia 4 stacks

[Wilhelm Sanke]

On Tue Aug 25, 2009; William Marriott wjm at wjm.org wrote:
  
> There are many reasons why we opted to make revMedia a free product.
> I'll detail some of them here:
>
> 1) Students.
> (snip)
> 2) Ubiquity.
> (snip)
> 3) Great content everyone can see.
> (snip)
> 4) It's 2009 and the Web is all about FREE.
> (snip)
> 5) Revenue.
> (snip)
> - Bill
>    RunRev marketing guy

Bill,

I am really happy that you eventually have re-introduced a free version. 
In 2001 the Rev team strongly opposed such deliberations, mainly because 
of economical reasons.

Here is a part of my post sent to Kevin (Miller) some days ago, when I 
extended my license up to 2013.

> I congratulate you on the decision to offer one version of Revolution 
> to the public for free. In 2001 we both had an exchange on the 
> Revolution list about such free versions. I had proposed to you to 
> continue to support the Metacard version - as some sort of "Revolution 
> Light" - and either offer it for free or at a very low price. Such a 
> step - in my opinion - would have been necessary, because at that time 
> you discontinued the free "Starter Kit" versions - from economical 
> reasons as you stated it, if I remember correctly.
>
> Not having at my disposal such Starter Kits has impeded my work to 
> some substantial degree with students at our university. We were 
> however  lucky to be able to continue to use the old Starter Kit 
> versions (which one could extend up to version 2.5), but were of 
> course unable to work with newly introduced features.-


Best regards,

Wilhelm Sanke