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>That is fine and is their problem / reward, however as you point out sometimes it is 
>our problem too. 
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As a "platform vendor", our problems are their problems as well ;-) 
Indeed I hope RT makes a lot of money selling those great technologies, 
but the specific case of runtime fees is troublesome. There _must_ be 
several reasons to abandon it, otherwise practically all publishers of 
software development tools wouldn't have done so.

- high burden of administration on developer side and tool company side
- sales figures hard to validate for the tool company
- success is "penalized"

I'd definitely rather pay $1500 for a REBOL Developer's Edition and then 
be done with it. I also think, given the enormous amount of competitive 
packages out there (be it commercial or free), a DE should be somewhat 
more attractive than the current /Encap package is, i.e. a useable /View 
Interface Builder would be a necessity.

Just a few thoughts.

-- Chris

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