>We feel that a substantial number of Standard Edition users are using XMLmind XML Editor *very*, >*very*, professionally, that is, >- they heavily depend on it for their work, >- they do very complicated things with it, >- they do not hesitate to *flood* xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com with hard-to-answer questions and > hard-to-reject RFEs.
Ouch. I am not surprised at XmlMind's decision, I've been a guilty beneficiary of their liberal licensing policy for may years. I'm a HEAVY user of XXE but I haven't bought a license. I didn't even take up the offer of a free professional license I was offered a couple of years ago. The reason I haven't done so is that there are a number of other *very* occasional (maybe once a month?) users in my company for whom the purchase of a license is difficult to justify. Basically, I have stuck to the standard version in order to prevent myself using additional functionality that would then be unavailable to these other occasional users. I wonder if I'm the only one who has stuck with the standard version for this reason? Is some kind of floating license a possibility? The existing site license is not appropriate as it is way out of scale with our needs and also because we are a highly distributed company. Regards (and thanks for all the years of free support) Kevin Flynn Birdstep Technology ASA Oslo, Norway
