No problem. Your existing free edition of Revolution version 2 will continue to work forever! You can complete your project and distribute it without any problems.
If you want to upgrade to 2.1 and can afford the $75 get the new Express version on sale before the end of next month. You won't have the 10 line limit of your current free version and will be able to help save your tribe's language on your Mac and even be able to freely distribute the application to other Mac users.
As far as Windows you could do the following...
1. You were hoping to scrape up $299 for the previous SBE version. That is the same as 1 Mac + 1 Windows Express versions at list price. The current sale price makes it even cheaper. All you would have to do is find someone with a Windows computer you can install Revolution Express on, copy over your finished stack and build it on the PC.
2. Alternatively you could partner up with a Windows purchaser of the Express version and work together and each build the finished standalones for distribution.
3. If your application was successful enough you could upgrade the Express version to the Studio version. I don't believe RunRev has posted the upgrade prices but they have been pretty close to just the cost differences of the various versions with previous versions. If you can swing this before the end of August then the Studio version will be $100 cheaper than what the SBE version ever was. You would be able to build distributions for all of the platforms from your Mac.
Bill Vlahos
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 06:21 PM, Duane Poncy wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:55:23 -0400, Wilhelm Sanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This is another late response to the new pricing scheme. As a user of the "Free Edition" I realize I don't have much standing to complain about the new pricing, but it does bring up a couple of questions for me.
I am more than a hobbyist, but I am not a professional programmer. I have been working on a Cherokee dictionary for some months now. The hundred plus hours I have put into this dictionary is gratis. I am very low income, and and have not been able to afford the SBE. I expect to have this project ready for use in a few months, and will distribute if for free, because it is important to me to help save my tribe's language.
For this software to continue to be useful, I need cross-platform capability. Most education people and many writers, like me, use MacIntosh, but the majority of people who will use this dictionary are PC users. I have been thinking that if it went well, I could maybe scrape together enough to buy the SBE. With the new pricing there is no way I can afford to buy into cross-platform capability.
I would like to continue to build Cherokee lanquage learning tools, but I guess I will have to find some other tool than Revolution. Or I will have to continue to use Revolution 2.0 free edition.
I don't know if there are others out there like me, and I know a company can't make decisions based on just a few users, but, nevertheless, I am truly disappointed.
Duane Poncy
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