>> Anyway, about the script limits, I think it's a good way to learn how
>> to optimise a script !
> I have an opposite opinion to this: I think the script limits are a poor
> choice for the Starter Kit, because this forces an experiemced programmer to
> use an artificial means to make something useful happen in Rev.
> ("spaghetti-style" programming as referred to by another list member)
> instead of really planning the app's object and script structure based on
> efficiency, speed and ease of enhancement/maintenance.
>
> The resulting app may run within the limitations of the Starter Kit, but
> when that user upgrades to an unlimited version, that same app might need to
> be rewritten to break out of its previous bounds.
I can see both ways of thinking. However, I think the script limits are very
fair, since there is no limit to how many 10-line scripts your project uses
totally. It's an amazing offer to have something as powerful as MC that you
can use like this to get started right away without paying upfront, with no
time limit or usage restrictions. I think that's radical enough to be called
a "philosophy" or "mission" rather than just a "policy" or "strategy". It
really helps everyone to get started with a powerful tool regardless of
their situation.
However, it's also true that Rev and MC might never get any income from a
dedicated long time user, a true hobbyist, for whom it wouldn't make sense
to invest in the big license for his purposes, but who probably wouldn't
mind paying a bit smaller fee. And, that person might eventually start to
wish he had just five or ten lines more in every script.... (Which, being so
highly trained to write terse code, he would put to very good use.) :-)
So, it could be a win-win situation to offer one more in-between level of
licensing such as $100 or $150, and maybe a user could get something like
20-line scripts. In this way, the hobbyist could pay for a bit better hobby
tool, or the small business or small developer could invest a bit for a
modest improvement, rather than sales for MC and limits for users being all
or nothing, with both the company and user losing some potential gain for
lack of a mutually beneficial compromise. It seems like there could be one
more stage in between 0 and 350.
(By the way, I saw that for the Standard Edition, you have to buy updates
individually for one year, then you have a choice to pay for yearly
license--but I didn't ever find the cost of the individual updates. Is there
any information about that?)
Curry Kenworthy
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