Revenue and the Open Source edition

[RM]

To this I would just like to point out that in my "other" email I have been
offered the chance to PAY Livecode to fix THEIR bugs:

https://livecode.com/services/priority-bug-fixes/

That seems a bit odd.

Richmond.

On 4.05.2016 09:53, Terence Heaford wrote:
> It seems to me as a “community” user that there is no community.
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> There only appears to be those that want to pay, those that can’t afford to pay and those that don’t want to pay for ideological reasons.
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> I, personally do not feel part of a community.
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> When I read the discussions (not just this thread) the majority seem to revolve around how to monetise the “community” for the benefit of LC and how can we convert a “community” user to a paid user.
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> It seems to me that there are a number of people who subscribe to this mailing list who want to own the product (rather than rent) and that is understandable (I am probably one of those).
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> But, to put it quite simply, I cannot afford it, it is to expensive for me ( a loss for me and a loss for live code).
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> If I were to produce a fantastic product that I thought would be useful to a great many people, I may want to give it away for free but under the present arrangement I would not
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> bother because I would not want to give away my coding effort.
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> Could probably go on forever but I think that’s enough.
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> The end of my 2 pence worth.
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> All the best
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> Terry
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