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Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can code On 11/04/2013 09:13, "JB" <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: >Many things are given away FREE in life with a requirement that you >register to receive the product. > >The LiveCode team offer some very useful videos and tools that can >be purchased at their store. To access these you need to have a >valid account with a email address and password. If you write a >useful tool you can probably sell it on their store. This helps the >whole community. > >How would you feel if you had a totally open source code with no >commercial license offered and the LiveCode team and store gone? >The most you would gain would being able to deliver your program >commercially with the code protected and no license payment. > >Like Kevin said the code is open source and we can change it. My >question is how do I access the engine and installer code to make >changes? What version of XCODE do I need to compile it after I >have made changes? Are there examples to compile the code >so beginners can do it the first time? > >-=>JB<=- > > >On Apr 10, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Kevin Miller 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 ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ >> LiveCode: Everyone can code >> >> >> >> >> On 10/04/2013 19:47, "Richmond" <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> 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 >>> 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 >> > > >_______________________________________________ >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