"Introducing New LiveCode Licenses"

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 04:11:09 EDT 2013


On 29/10/13 08:50, Curry Kenworthy wrote:
>
>> All this said, I do think RunRev have probably got their pricing 
>> strategy wrong. The cross-platform tools with large growing user 
>> bases and decent profits (there aren't many of them) all have some 
>> kind of limited free commercial license - often both feature limited 
>> and with a revenue cap on the person/organisation. They also have 
>> more expensive full licenses than RunRev. Trying to cover everyone 
>> with a single license fee is almost definitely sub-optimal.
>
> Howdy,
>
> I disagree with this path. My virtual vote is against a free 
> commercial license. As you say, then the full license is more 
> expensive - sometimes astronomical. (Socialism at work.)
>
> People can learn and get started or do non profit projects free with 
> open source. I say keep it paid when they go commercial and need 
> closed source. RunRev chose the OSS route, so having taken that route, 
> now this should be the only free version.
>
> But I agree that a segment may be lacking - hobbyists and so on. 
> People who need closed source but are short on cash, and don't need 
> all the platforms. A smaller commercial package for one or two 
> platforms could fill this need.
>
> I love the current buffet price for all the basic, popular platforms. 
> I hope that stays.
>
> Besides the effort to monetize support options, perhaps the commercial 
> version could also diverge a bit from the open source version 
> eventually to offer some extra power in another higher commercial 
> version.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Curry K.
>
  A free commercial licence seems a contradiction in terms.

What might fill the gap would be a rental system where one can have a 
licence for commercial that expires after a stipulated period: how about
a $50 a day plan?

Richmond.




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