On 04/10/2013 10:31 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.
Your position may well be that "the vast majority of users are happy to
log in",
but with Open Source Software your position has to leave the end-user
able to choose,
in this case, whether s/he wants to login or not.
and, it is not at all helpful for those who wish to install on
non-internet connected machines.
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.
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