Livecode Future

[Heather Laine]

https://future.livecode.com/faq/


Heather Laine
Customer Services Manager
LiveCode Ltd
www.livecode.com



> On 24 Jul 2024, at 18:23, Craig Newman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I just read "Are the current compiled classic apps going to be disabled when the classic license expires?"
> 
> This topic is being discussed as well on the forum. I suggested there that a FAQ page be set up because there are still fundamental questions that are causing confusion at best, and anger and disappointment at worst.
> 
> Craig
> 
>> On Jul 24, 2024, at 1:09 PM, Riko Abadi via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have developed an Android application using LiveCode which I use for my
>> web hosting business. Customers can monitor their servers through the
>> Android app created with LiveCode. Do I have to pay 5% of my total web
>> hosting revenue? My backend is built with Golang, not a LiveCode server.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 11:52 PM Kevin Miller via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for sharing this Tom, really appreciate it.
>>> 
>>> Just one point. When you get to $1M in revenue your payments are half what
>>> you suggest I,e. $25K as the percentage steadily drops as your revenue
>>> increases. You can see an example PDF table in the FAQ under "How much are
>>> Application Payments?".
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Kevin
>>> 
>>> Kevin Miller ~ kevin at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
>>> LiveCode: Build Amazing Things
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 24/07/2024, 17:08, "use-livecode on behalf of Tom Glod via
>>> use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com <mailto:
>>> use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com> on behalf of
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I want to add a couple of points about my own case / stance.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have been with Livecode for about 11 years.
>>> While I have not yet shipped a whole lot ...yet
>>> I took all this time to work on my skills and to build tooling for myself
>>> so that I can create small niche products extremely quickly and also large
>>> products at a quick pace as well.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So in a very real sense I've been building income potential.
>>> Income potential, which I will be joyfully executing on for the next decade
>>> plus, with many different products.
>>> I've spent MAYBE $3 or 4K on Livecode over those years (because I used the
>>> community to build.)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So in my case, to me, I really have received much value from Livecode, as
>>> Kevin said in the video.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To me, Livecode is asking, ...Tom, can you pay us 50k to make $1 million?
>>> And they are promising an increasingly better platform in exchange, and
>>> faster updates.
>>> That leaves $950k for me, my family and my business.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I cannot speak on behalf of anyone else, and clearly for some this really
>>> sucks.
>>> I'm sorry for that and in no way am I saying that this is easy.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for listening
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:55 AM Kevin Miller via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Included or not, your company is paying for the platform as a whole, per
>>>> user, per month and some of that revenue will be going to Power Apps.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The fact that you aren’t specifically choosing to subscribe to it is very
>>>> disappointing. I won’t get into a whole argument here but that strikes me
>>>> as monopolistic. Microsoft have been in trouble for this sort of thing in
>>>> the past. Unfortunately we won’t have time to wait for some sort of
>>>> antitrust case to catch up.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Kevin
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Kevin Miller ~ kevin at livecode.com <mailto:kevin at livecode.com> ~
>>> http://www.livecode.com/ <http://www.livecode.com/>
>>>> 
>>>> LiveCode: Build Amazing Things
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> From: Colin Kelly <ckelly5430 at gmail.com <mailto:ckelly5430 at gmail.com>>
>>>> Date: Wednesday 24 July 2024 at 15:35
>>>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>>>> Cc: Kevin Miller <kevin at livecode.com <mailto:kevin at livecode.com>>
>>>> Subject: Re: Livecode Future
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I see your argument but disagree with your premise, We don’t buy MS o365
>>>> Business standard license for our users SO we can deploy PowerApps, we
>>>> subscribe to 0365 for our users so they have access to business
>>>> applications like Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams etc. the ability to deploy
>>>> developed PowerApps to our users is a benefit of Microsoft’s licensing
>>> that
>>>> we would already be using so not an additional cost
>>>> 
>>>> MS O365 is pretty much a standard across all business sectors.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> 
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