Feature Race: Pick Your Project

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami brahma at hindu.org
Sat Jun 24 17:53:17 EDT 2017


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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