> I'd like to re-iterate however, that we certainly never > promised a year of updates with the Omega bundle. The only > license type we sell that carries a year of updates is the > Complete license.
The Omegabundle included "Pro" 1 desktop and 1 mobile, which came to a $499 value (at the time). I don't think the Complete was in existence back in April, 2011. Each component of the Omegabundle was licensed according to whatever is the publisher norm. For example, Valentina ADK, Valentina Studio and Franklin 3D all include 12 months, because that's the only way those are sold. .com Solutions FmPro Migrator Platinum Edition has its own special form of licensing. You can see everything that was included here: http://www.omegabundle.com/news/95-omegabundle-2011-for-livecode-released There really isn't a norm any more in licensing, though I think contrary to what the experts say about product pricing strategy, many software companies price/license according to their costs rather than according to customer value. Subscription pricing (getting all updates during X amount of time) is attractive for many reasons - as a vendor, because it allows you to charge beyond the perceived base price. Customers perceive there's more value in this if there are many updates. Even very savvy customers such as LiveCode buyers - folks who know just how expensive / time consuming / difficult fixing and improving support for feature X in a dev tool - are as likely as any to think this way, even though its contrary to what they know as developers themselves. My point? Regardless of whatever pricing model makes sense for your business, we all still operate with some base expectations that may be contrary to our base understanding. The New York steak looks bigger than the fillet but that doesn't mean it's a tastier or more satisfying steak ;-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode