Feature Race: Pick Your Project

[Mike Kerner]

Wow.  I'm surprised we aren't closer to getting this funded.  c'mon y'all
let's get this funded!

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I had similar feelings, (I have taken almost every pitch to "pay in
> advance for X number of years for this discount or that… ) so when we get
> hit up again for development that one would hope would be just part of the
> product road map, it does indeed seem odd. Even "advanced smooth scrolling
> graphics" seems odd to be funding, since all this is doing is bring the LC
> mobile on parity with any other smooth flowing app.
>
> This is terribly obvious, but just to say it all again:
>
> Thinking about it, one has to appreciate the challenge the company faces.
> Having gone open source, Livecode moves to a world where everyone and his
> kid sister thinks programming is free. PHP, Javascript, python, CSS…people
> living in those world just don't pay for their tools.
>
> So if open source users are going up (which apparently they are)… that
> doesn't help us (to say the obvious)
>
> If not enough of them are using LC to build products for sale to support
> themselves, OR are not using the tools in-house inside Enterprise (like we
> do here, even though we are non -profit we do have software budgets) where
> budgets are such that the ROI on paid license(s) is well worth it. And it
> would be easy enough for some unscrupulous for-profit company to have 5
> coders on community and only one license and pretty much get away with
> it…(which is cheating of course)…
>
> So  If the user "pie" of those whose are paying  <> equal $ to support the
> company and + hours for features, how does LC handle this, to stay alive?
>  And we all want it to stay alive…right?
>
> I was hoping to talk to Kevin about some other ideas for solutions… but he
> is busy. Perhaps I need to fly to Scotland for tea. In the meantime, I
> voted/pledged for the DataGrid2/GraphicsUpgrade.
>
> Brahmanathaswamai
>
>
>
>
> On 6/24/17, 7:41 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Alex Tweedly via
> use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>     So the Feature Race lets me choose between "Hosting debugger" and
>     Datagrid 2.
>
>     Hmpphhh!
>
>     <puts on Grumpy Old Man t-shirt ...>
>
>     I have a hard time voting for, or funding, Hosting debugger. I already
>     paid for that, back in 2009.
>
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