Open Livecode Login

[Richmond]

On 04/10/2013 10:31 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.

Your position may well be that "the vast majority of users are happy to 
log in",

but with Open Source Software your position has to leave the end-user 
able to choose,
in this case, whether s/he wants to login or not.

and, it is not at all helpful for those who wish to install on 
non-internet connected machines.

> 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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