New Pricing

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 11:05:05 AM, you wrote:

> It's even worse than you describe, though what you describe is already
> taken care of:

It's even worse than *you* describe. While a pay-as-you-go
subscription model may work for some sofware-as-a-service platforms,
it most definitely does *not* work for development apps. I would never
as a hobbyist, as a professional developer, or as a company, invest in
a development platform that:

a) needed to connect to a license validation server over an internet
connection in order to start up
b) ceased working if I stopped subscribing to updates
c) ceased working if something happened to the issuing company
d) required me to be online to get any work done
e) required a licensing server to be online and its database
accessible and up-to-date in order to function

It seems that the new pricing structure is designed for three things:

1. to punish developers who don't keep updating every year regular as
clockwork
2. to remove the single-platform products
3. to provide entry barriers to developers new to the platform

It's been four days now since Kevin promised to make this "clearer".

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net