LiveCode Commercial License

[JB]

That brings up a very interesting question about the
license being a subscription instead of you owning
the program like you did with Revolution Enterprise.

People value their software and the programming
tools they spend time using to make it.

What if for some reason or another LiveCode went
out of business.  You might have spent years making
your program and then like happened with me and
many other hyperCard users you were hit with the
reality hyperCard would not run on the new Mac OS.
Apple in the beginning said the best programs would
not be seen for about 10 years.

The point is even if you have a commercial license and
LiveCode goes out of business you will not be able to
develop your program even if the current update will do
everything you need.

You can say LiveCode will protect you and allow you to
develop forever using your current license.  But you know
how courts, attorneys, license etc. are and just because
you think that would be the proper thing to do you do not
know if they could legally allow you do do it even if they
wanted to.  People who paid money might be able to stop
them from allowing you to develop software.  And believe
me some people will buy companies just to stop you from
marketing a new product they do not want on the market.

John Balgenorth


On Sep 18, 2014, at 12:29 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how RR would stay in business at all if all their licenses were free. If it's true that only 5% of the user base actually pays for the product, how else should RR get funding?