Revenue and the Open Source edition

[Kaveh Bazargan]

It's all getting too complicated...

On 4 May 2016 at 10:39, RM <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> To this I would just like to point out that in my "other" email I have been
> offered the chance to PAY Livecode to fix THEIR bugs:
>
> https://livecode.com/services/priority-bug-fixes/
>
> That seems a bit odd.
>
> Richmond.
>
>
> On 4.05.2016 09:53, Terence Heaford wrote:
>
>> It seems to me as a “community” user that there is no community.
>>
>> There only appears to be those that want to pay, those that can’t afford
>> to pay and those that don’t want to pay for ideological reasons.
>>
>> I, personally do not feel part of a community.
>>
>> When I read the discussions (not just this thread) the majority seem to
>> revolve around how to monetise the “community” for the benefit of LC and
>> how can we convert a “community” user to a paid user.
>>
>> It seems to me that there are a number of people who subscribe to this
>> mailing list who want to own the product (rather than rent) and that is
>> understandable (I am probably one of those).
>>
>> But, to put it quite simply, I cannot afford it, it is to expensive for
>> me ( a loss for me and a loss for live code).
>>
>> If I were to produce a fantastic product that I thought would be useful
>> to a great many people, I may want to give it away for free but under the
>> present arrangement I would not
>>
>> bother because I would not want to give away my coding effort.
>>
>> Could probably go on forever but I think that’s enough.
>>
>> The end of my 2 pence worth.
>>
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Terry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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