Kevin, Crossed your mail by being interrupted whilst typing replying on my phone.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make login optional than actively invite a fork? Respectfully, Mark Kevin Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >Our position on this is that the vast majority of users are happy to log >in, and we would like to know and stay in touch (if you also permit that) >with the vast majority of you. It really helps us to know how successful >we are being if we have some data. It also helps us to detect issues >quickly, like for example a version that has an install problem. > >For the minority who are not happy, well - its open. Create your own >version with no activation! > >We appreciate that you do now have a choice. I hope most of you choose to >continue to use our version with activation in it. But it is up to you if >you want to remove it. > >(With respect to the various issues with passwords/activations etc, we had >a glitch earlier which affected both commercial & OSS. For this we do >apologize, things should be running smoothly again now.) > >Kind regards, > >Kevin > >Kevin Miller ~ [email protected] ~ http://www.runrev.com/ >LiveCode: Everyone can code > > > > >On 10/04/2013 19:47, "Richmond" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Well . . . >> >>. . . eventually, after about 60 minutes of muttering and tooth-sucking >>I managed to log in to the >>Open Source version of LIvecode 6.0; obviously whatever goes behind the >>scenes on RunRev's servers >>vis-a-vis passwords, while being almost instantaneous for login into >>their webpage, is rather >>slow for setting up the thing. >> >>Should I be happy? >> >>Well, I'm not (yet, at least) as I am still tied by the requirement of >>having to have an internet connexion >>for setup, and knowledge that RunRev are still tracking me. >> >>This means, for the sake of argument, when I set up the 8 machines in my >>school for programming classes in the summer the whole process will take >>about 3-4 hours messing around with each machine >>with my Internet-USB dongle courtesy of my mobile-phone supplier; going >>from machine to machine, >>waiting for the dongle software to load and a connexion to be >>established, and then registering. >> >>Possibly I will not have that trouble as, maybe, RunRev have tied each >>account to one installation only . . . >> >>. . . and if that is so "Open" is fast becoming a word that means >>something quite different from what I have always understood it to be. >> >>Fair forjaskit. >> >>Richmond. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>use-livecode mailing list >>[email protected] >>Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>subscription preferences: >>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >[email protected] >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
