>> I can understand why there are users who feel betrayed by the company especially with the new pricing structure, and the discontinuance of support for the Community version which was even paid for in a marketing campaign in advance of it’s release. << The vast majority of the money contributed to the Kickstarter received a commercial license in the days after the Kickstarter closed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28379192
I've contributed to other very high profile projects, where within a year or so of completion the vendors lost interest in the project and discontinued it and my _installed_ copy stopped working. No answer from customer support, the company had the money and just moved on. No-one who contributed to the Kickstarter received that kind of treatment from LC Ltd. >> It can seem that the company keeps increasing it’s prices while taking away functionality by forcing users to select which specific platforms to be able to deploy to. That seems to go against the idea of coding once and being able to deploy to all platforms in one affordable package. << LC deploying to 3 platforms is still cheaper now than Revolution Enterprise was 15 years ago. >> Access to the Community version is still very important as that is how many users were first introduced to LiveCode who then became paying customers. I believe the try it before buying model is still very important for helping users to make the purchase decision. << "... who then became paying customers..." If that was true I don't think LC Ltd would have felt the need to terminate the free offering. There are lots of people who have admitted that they didn't see the point in paying for a license when the free version could do 99% of what the licensed version could do. The tragedy is that many people are too selfish to see the bigger picture. I know dozens of parents who spend far more on the mobile phone contracts for their children than the LC starter license costs. Those parents know they can't get a free phone for their kids so they pay up. On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:14 PM Rick Harrison via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > On Sep 1, 2021, at 11:44 AM, Dan Brown via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > That's a bit harsh, are you forgetting the amount of money that was > > contributed by users to the fund raisers over the years? > $600k > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode