I despair . . . how could one lower oneself to two fingers of 'whiskey'?
Just now I am enjoying a glass of whisky (without the offending 'e').
Richmond.
On 27.03.21 20:29, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Roger Guay wrote:
On Mar 26, 2021, at 5:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
What are you looking for? When were these "good ol days"
in which one could run stack files without an engine, and
how did that work?
In the good ol days, I could build a standalone for the Mac,
Windows and Linux and distribute it willy-nilly. Now I have to
jump thru intolerable hoops (at least for the Mac) to give
someone my standalone. if someone (hint. . .hint) could build
a Livecode reader app for dirt cheap or even free w advertising
that would run LC standalones, everything would be right in the
world again!
I think my martini is showing...
After I read that I poured myself two fingers of whiskey and sat back
enjoying the memories you conjured. Good thoughts. Thanks.
In those days we made software for single users to run on a single
computer running one brand of OS.
The web had barely been invented, the Internet not yet privatized for
general use, and "cloud" was still called "mainframe".
It was a much simpler time. I miss those days myself.
The hoops we now jump through to deliver apps are OS vendors
responding to an evolving need to establish trust in hostile connected
environments.
As software opportunities have expanded, they've for everyone, good
and bad actors alike.
My response to Alex was apparently too long to be read, but I touched
on this in third block, re "security", re implications for a player as
well:
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2021-March/263948.html
This conversation has given me some focus and clarification of the
basic idea. Here is what I would love to see: A LiveCodeLight
downloadable from the mother ship.
Why specifically from the mother ship?
Or to put it in business terms, which features/bug fixes would you be
willing to see dropped so the company could commit to making and
maintaining yet another project?
In addition to the opportunity cost to the company, there's also the
segment who would use it as an alternative to maintaining a current
license, resulting in at least some degree of revenue cannibalization.
And while the upside is non-zero, it's limited to a slender subset of
promotional value opportunities which could more easily be attained
with nearly any marketing strategy at lower cost, and in ways that
more directly feed their funnel.
Moreover, a player produces no direct revenue, but maintenance and
support obligations create immediate (if modest) direct payroll impact.
Free software isn't free to make and maintain.
LiveCodeLight would be a stripped down version of the community
edition that would not open the IDE, but would open and run stacks.
Thanks, Brian for the idea.
Is that a cool idea or what?
Also addressed in my earlier post (some day I'll learn to write less
here).
The close of that post suggested this might make a good community
project, and described how simple it could be if anyone here really
wanted something that rudimentary.
But (for the reasons also described in that post) it would have to be
with Community, which raises two questions not yet answered in any
subsequent reply:
How many who would use a generic player would be willing to relicense
their works under GPL, as would be required if distributed via the
GPL-governed Community Edition.
And with Community's role in LC's business as a sort of freemium
offer, how many projects might one want to distribute with a player
which use absolutely none of any features found only in the
proprietary editions, Indy and Business?
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