I must admit, that i totally agree with you.
> Am 05.09.2021 um 17:35 schrieb Bernard Devlin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > ..... > > Largest user demographic? Free-loaders who contributed no money but plenty > of baseless whining? > > So many protest poverty but I'm 100% certain they spend more every year > than the cost of an annual license fee on plenty of other things. Some of > us paid for a license for years in order to fund something we believed in > and wanted to see thrive, even though that meant having to forego stuff > that the free-loaders would instead be spending their money on. FWIW my > health problems have made it difficult for me to do any work that required > keeping regular hours or even being able to keep appointments. Yet I'd > bought licenses for 18 years before I bought a lifetime license (I still > have unused licenses in my account, at one point in the last few years I > had three concurrent licenses). When I hear "can't afford" I translate it > into "I prioritise my spending differently". "If I don't make any > financial contribution to LC Ltd I can get a new iPhone" - that kind of > thing. I just sacrificed other things in order to keep supporting LC. > > When they had their free toys taken away the rampant hostility from the > free-loaders shows what little value they brought. Some of those whining > free-loaders have barely made 80 posts on the Forum in the past 8 years. > Despite being a continuous license payer, despite my health problems, I > freely gave hundreds of hours of help to people on the Forum. Some of them > are saying "if LC Ltd had had a donate button, I'd have sent them some > money". Yeah, right - contacting LC Ltd and asking how they could > contribute financially was beyond their abilities. > > In 25 years on the internet, I've never before seen such a collection of > valueless people as these whiners (they wouldn't be tolerated in any other > business or open source community). Most of the users of the Community > edition are of so little value that they can't even be bothered to take > part in the Forum and provide support to other users! When I look at the > whiners compared to how few posts they even made on the Forum, I'm filled > with disgust. Have they no shame? They contribute neither time nor money. > > It's simple. Those who aren't parasites will decide to start contributing > financially. Those who are parasites will go away, and live off some other > community - and the absence of parasites will be beneficial. If just one of > those who isn't a parasite takes out a standard license it will take him > nearly 20 years to contribute as much financially as I have _since_ the > "community" edition was launched. People like me could have simply stopped > paying and used "the free edition" too, and this situation would have come > about much sooner. If it turns out all of those who used the Community > edition were parasites, what has LC Ltd lost if they vanish? > > Parasite might sound like a strong word, but what word do you use for > someone who takes, takes, takes but never gives back, contributing nothing > else than to make an organism weaker? > _______________________________________________ > 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
