Revenue and the Open Source edition

[RM]

 From a purely selfish point of view (what, me, surely not?) I stated I 
wanted to PAY for something
PERMANENT because I develop ONLY for desktop (and possibly HTML%) 
deployment.

This is where we might need to discuss the sort of folowing scenario:

1. Permanent version that deploys standalones only for desktops (and 
HTML5 ?).

2. "Rentable" version that deploys standalones only to tablets (iOS, 
Android).

3. All-singing-all-dancing version at a high price (and there's room for 
a rent/buy fight there).

"a software tool which is maintained and upgraded regularly, even if 
that means that i have to pay for it."

If there were a reasonable price for a permanent version, and upgrades 
were then offered at, let's say, 20% of the price
of the permanent version to those who ALREADY HAD PURCHASED the 
permanent version . . . ?

Then the end-user can decide whether the new features enabled in an 
upgrade are worth upgrading to
or not just yet.

This is a model used by very many software vendors.

  Richmond.

On 3.05.2016 10:56, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
> I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.
>
> On one hand i would prefer a pay once use for ever license model.
> On the other i want a software tool which is maintained  and upgraded regularly, even if that means that i have to pay for it.
>
> I remember discussions when the old “pay once use that version forever, but you can pay for updates” license model were active.
> The people were moaning that the tool they just  had purchased some months or weeks ago, was upgraded and the upgrade was not free.
> I remember discussions about the price for the yearly upgrade fee of Revolution standard and Enterprise.
>
> Regarding the discussion about the possibility to deploy to iOS for semi-professionals and hobbyists:
> With the current situation how often xCode is upgraded and how often therefore Livecode needs to be fixed to work again with that xCode version, i really do not see any advantage for such a "pay once use forever” license without having the opportunity  to subscribe to a software maintenance plan.
> But even with such an option to subscribe to such a plan, the discussion starts over and over again as soon as  an xCode version is released which is not working with older “not upgraded” LC versions.
>
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