Community version download

[Richmond]

On 12/04/13 08:53, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> Monte Goulding wrote
>> ....Yes, that bit's just asking for someone to fork the IDE, not sure why
>> RunRev haven't based this login around a service like revonline but
>> luckily I don't need to make these decisions. If it were me I'd quickly
>> change it to Login to revOnline or skip... then make the services the
>> login is for more compelling.
> This is indeed a very odd choice - its the only OSS package I have ever come
> across that requires product activation in this way, and it really is asking
> for a fork of the IDE.  One can see the motivation.  But the competition in
> this space is surely Python, and that is free as in air....  Its living a
> bit dangerously.  Forking is one of the main reefs out there in this
> particular ocean.

I think RunRev have made a big mistake here, as setting their release up 
for a fork
right away (which, presumably, they won't host on their website ???) is 
going to
detract quite a bit from their rationale for releasing an OSS version: 
to gather community
programming ideas which can be rolled into the pay version, and to make 
people look
more closely at their website.

I wonder if RunRev wouldn't be wiser to, quietly, release the next 
version of LC OSS
without the phone-home arrangement and licensing requirement?

>
> The inability to use protected plug-ins is an interesting and quite
> significant feature.  Presumably the reason is that there is an ability to
> incorporate them or some of them into programs one has written which would
> have to be released under GPL, but the plug-ins would be incompatible with
> it?
>
> Peter
>
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