Yes, Alex Rice, you are quite right: my message is extremely rude! I did not enjoy writing it....however there are one or 2 points......
1. If RR is a commercial enterprise then it might like to consider rewarding developer contribs: the idea of FREE or not FREE can work in both directions. There has certainly been the impression of a 'community' - now one of the shortcomings of RR is the lack of an adequate manual that will serve the needs of new programmers - the use-lists, to a certain extent, serve that purpose. However if users are writing the manual (so to speak) should they not have some benefit from it? The concept of a community where people give freely of their time and effort to contribute to building something (in this case a knowledge base) seems directly the opposite of a commercial enterprise. I understood that the Runtime Revolution team were doing something admirable; an attempt to combine both concepts in what we might like to term "a third way" or "enlightened commercialism". However, the removal of the 'free' version of RR does away with this image and leave us with raw commercialism. So henceforward words like "RR developer community" will sound a bit hollow. I have been repeatedly encouraged in my comments to the use-list and contributions both to the developer contribs page and on my own small website by both RR staff members and by other use-list members; and that made me feel part of a 'community' in which at least some of my stuff was valued. I have always made it explicit that I could not afford a license (I do not develop software for anybody at the moment) this did not stop anybody encouraging me. The reason why I feel f***ed off is because I will no longer be able to contribute very successfully to the use-list or the developer contribs page being unable to have proper access to future RR builds. 2. Rudeness.......I remember hearing about some aid workers in Ethiopia who gave out free orange juice to children: the parents would come and help the aid workers in a variety of ways. Suddenly the aid workers started demanding money for the juice - one of them was killed by a prent of one of the children who had previously recieved juice. All very sad, Richmond Mathewson __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html and http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/usercontributions.html __________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- Great Macintosh Products The MacLaunch Store! http://www.maclaunch.com/cgi-launch/store/agora.cgi --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution