On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Brendan Murphy wrote: > Joshua Coventry wrote: >> This looks interesting but at $450 per license, that's rather steep. >> Can you expand on what justifies the price? (obviously a lot of work >> and time has gone into this, but apart from those factors). > > <snick> > > On the negative perception side, I tend to find many > who congregate around the RB environment have a skewed perception > of what a lot of development tools out there cost. I think a lot > of RB users don't truly understand the gem they have in RB! In my > many years of development on projects with millions of lines of > code and hundreds of programmers down to one man projects, RB > can't be beat for the market it addresses. So you see the $300 > subscription price for RB and think, oh my that is expensive. Try > paying $1000, $4000, or $8000 a crack for some of the specialized > development tools out there and you will begin to see the value of > RB and what it can do. Likewise, the same argument can be said > about the FTC. The value you are getting from the FTC is great. > > I am now nearing the end of the development of version 1.0 of the > FTC. In my opinion the best distribution option for the FTC would > to make it completely free and open source, but obviously I can't > just do that. To that end last Monday, I send email to Geoff > asking if he would want to buy the rights to the FTC and make it > free and open sourced for the entire RB community. So far I have > heard nothing and I have no idea why he has not responded. To this > end, I have two suggestions for the RB community. First, open a > feedback report asking for RS to buy the rights to the FTC and > then get everyone to sign on to it. Second, if you really want to > see the FTC be free for everybody, write Geoff and state your > support for this idea. I won't personally create the feedback > report myself since this would be self-serving on my part. If you > want it to free, you have to ask for it, but there is no guarantee > RS will do it, but it is more likely to happen if the community is > asking for it.
It seems to me that the proper approach to making the FTC completely free and open-source would be for you to do it, as the author of the code. So I suggest that everyone send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking that you release your code. Charles Yeomans _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
