(Kerry, no offense taken at all. I know you were speaking in general terms and not aiming at me directly :) )
I base my livelihood on Macromedia's ability to produce a multimedia authoring platform that keeps growing and expanding the multimedia market (and my ability to make good use of this platform obviously). Therefore, the better Macromedia does, the better I can do. If spending $1200 on a software product was a good investment it would be a very easy decision to make. However, when this kind of money may represent a big percentage of your income you think, not twice, but thrice to make up your mind. This is when "lateral thinking" comes into play. If there is no way that I can spend $1200 on a product I will do what I can, within legal terms, to find a workaround. To be honest I have managed to find a business strategy that allows me to pay $1200 without huge financial efforts and that is why 100% of my software is legal. To sum up this discussion, I think a programmer facing the need to produce cross-platform products (when he/she owns only one) should have the following options: 1) Macromedia gives you free (or included in the actual price of a single platform) a set of standard stubs to use freely. If this is not possible, 2) Have a "stub package" that for $100 or whatever gives you access to this stubs. If not possible, 3) Have a bundle for both platforms, make it $400 more. If not possible 4) People will look for legal ways to make use of stubs, and finally 5) Illegal stubs will roam the earth. My intuition tells me that not all multimedia companies, little less individuals, own a copy for each platform. This is for economic reasons. If this is actually the case, wouldn't it be in Macromedia's interest to offer an alternative to profit from? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
