Hello Richard (sorry, couldn't resist). :) Richmond wrote:
I have repeatedly raised the possibility of either a feature-reduced version of Livecode or a re-release of an earlier version of Livecode (say 2.0) at an extremely cheap rate if not free. This has been ignored.
"Ignored"? On the contrary, they not only gave it consideration, but also actually did it, as you noted:
Free RevMedia, as we are surely all well aware, lasted a very short while........
There may be a reason for that, and I'm willing to be it wasn't Kevin Miller stumbling into the office drunk one day raging, "Let's get those teachers! To hell with them! Let's take away RevMedia! That'll fix 'em! Sure, we'll lose millions along the way, but damn I hate the education market and I'm willing to throw all that money away just to stick it to them!"
I suspect their reasons for EOL'ing RevMedia was far less interesting, based merely on ROI and other boring spreadsheet stuff.
If there is a compelling business case to be made which could demonstrate their direct experience to be incorrect or incomplete, submitting a proposal with well-researched supporting data to their office would be more likely to get a response from them than sending summary notes to the users here who have no control over LiveCode.
Even better, consider putting that effort into the folks who run Python, Moodle, or other orgs who already depend on business models based around free software.
If you're successful at helping those orgs make more money, we may be able to make a case for RunRev to take LiveCode open source, which would be far more beneficial to so many others in addition to the EDU segment than simply a free-as-in-beer proposal.
Thus far, the best business model RunRev has been able to come up with which lets them keep electricity coming to their computers and food to their developers has been the one they have now. It can probably be improved on (all systems can), but a complete change of direction would not be prudent without diligent, detailed research.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys _______________________________________________ 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
