Open Livecode Login

[JB]

Many things are given away FREE in life with a requirement that you
register to receive the product.

The LiveCode team offer some very useful videos and tools that can 
be purchased at their store.  To access these you need to have a
valid account with a email address and password.  If you write a
useful tool you can probably sell it on their store.  This helps the
whole community.

How would you feel if you had a totally open source code with no
commercial license offered and the LiveCode team and store gone?
The most you would gain would being able to deliver your program
commercially with the code protected and no license payment.

Like Kevin said the code is open source and we can change it.  My
question is how do I access the engine and installer code to make
changes?  What version of XCODE do I need to compile it after I
have made changes?  Are there examples to compile the code
so beginners can do it the first time?

-=>JB<=-


On Apr 10, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Kevin Miller wrote:

> Our position on this is that the vast majority of users are happy to log
> in, and we would like to know and stay in touch (if you also permit that)
> with the vast majority of you. It really helps us to know how successful
> we are being if we have some data. It also helps us to detect issues
> quickly, like for example a version that has an install problem.
> 
> For the minority who are not happy, well - its open. Create your own
> version with no activation!
> 
> We appreciate that you do now have a choice. I hope most of you choose to
> continue to use our version with activation in it. But it is up to you if
> you want to remove it.
> 
> (With respect to the various issues with passwords/activations etc, we had
> a glitch earlier which affected both commercial & OSS. For this we do
> apologize, things should be running smoothly again now.)
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
> LiveCode: Everyone can code
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/04/2013 19:47, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well . . .
>> 
>> . . . eventually, after about 60 minutes of muttering and tooth-sucking
>> I managed to log in to the
>> Open Source version of LIvecode 6.0; obviously whatever goes behind the
>> scenes on RunRev's servers
>> vis-a-vis passwords, while being almost instantaneous for login into
>> their webpage, is rather
>> slow for setting up the thing.
>> 
>> Should I be happy?
>> 
>> Well, I'm not (yet, at least) as I am still tied by the requirement of
>> having to have an internet connexion
>> for setup, and knowledge that RunRev are still tracking me.
>> 
>> This means, for the sake of argument, when I set up the 8 machines in my
>> school for programming classes in the summer the whole process will take
>> about 3-4 hours messing around with each machine
>> with my Internet-USB dongle courtesy of my mobile-phone supplier; going
>> from machine to machine,
>> waiting for the dongle software to load and a connexion to be
>> established, and then registering.
>> 
>> Possibly I will not have that trouble as, maybe, RunRev have tied each
>> account to one installation only . . .
>> 
>> . . . and if that is so "Open" is fast becoming a word that means
>> something quite different from what I have always understood it to be.
>> 
>> Fair forjaskit.
>> 
>> Richmond.
>> 
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