From a purely selfish point of view (what, me, surely not?) I stated I
wanted to PAY for something
PERMANENT because I develop ONLY for desktop (and possibly HTML%)
deployment.
This is where we might need to discuss the sort of folowing scenario:
1. Permanent version that deploys standalones only for desktops (and
HTML5 ?).
2. "Rentable" version that deploys standalones only to tablets (iOS,
Android).
3. All-singing-all-dancing version at a high price (and there's room for
a rent/buy fight there).
"a software tool which is maintained and upgraded regularly, even if
that means that i have to pay for it."
If there were a reasonable price for a permanent version, and upgrades
were then offered at, let's say, 20% of the price
of the permanent version to those who ALREADY HAD PURCHASED the
permanent version . . . ?
Then the end-user can decide whether the new features enabled in an
upgrade are worth upgrading to
or not just yet.
This is a model used by very many software vendors.
Richmond.
On 3.05.2016 10:56, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.
On one hand i would prefer a pay once use for ever license model.
On the other i want a software tool which is maintained and upgraded
regularly, even if that means that i have to pay for it.
I remember discussions when the old “pay once use that version forever, but you
can pay for updates” license model were active.
The people were moaning that the tool they just had purchased some months or
weeks ago, was upgraded and the upgrade was not free.
I remember discussions about the price for the yearly upgrade fee of Revolution
standard and Enterprise.
Regarding the discussion about the possibility to deploy to iOS for
semi-professionals and hobbyists:
With the current situation how often xCode is upgraded and how often therefore
Livecode needs to be fixed to work again with that xCode version, i really do not
see any advantage for such a "pay once use forever” license without having the
opportunity to subscribe to a software maintenance plan.
But even with such an option to subscribe to such a plan, the discussion starts
over and over again as soon as an xCode version is released which is not
working with older “not upgraded” LC versions.
Matthias
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