Le 23 août 09 à 06:34, Sivakatirswami a écrit :
capellan wrote:
Hi all,
This is an enhancement request for revMedia 4.
filled in Report # 8234.
Given that revMedia 4 will be free, the option to
password protect your scripts should be allowed only
in Studio and Enterprise versions of Rev, just like
the options to use encryption, Business databases
and SSL.
Can you provide more compelling reasons for disabling password
protection?
(aside from compelling users to move to a paid version)
I'm more interested that revMedia "take off"
in the viral sense of being widely used, RunRev RevTalk
brand becomes as sweet and common as honey in your lemonade.
The question of whether disabling protection enhances
or dampens the "jet fuel" that could push RevMedia to
a wider audience needs to be answered.
in the old hypercard days, could you protect stacks? I can't
remember, it's been so long....
Hypercard was free (but without standalone capability) because that
was a requirement by Bill Atkinson. Password protection was the only
way to do business with HC in these days. Then (I do not remember in
which order) standalones were possible and the IDE was not free
anymore. However there was still a free player.
I think the defeat of Hypercard lied in its inability to compile for
the PC, which was itself due to the particular way it was implemented
by Atkinson. Remember that, at that times, MS windows was unusable.
Making HC a non free developing environment killed the grass root
enthusiasm for HC.
Did this prevent or enhance Hypercard's popularity?
1) Young people probably won't care, even if they can protect there
stuff, they may choose to let others see their scripts.
2) teachers will, as pointed out
3) anyone doing a lo-level business app most certainly (who has
plenty $ to upgrade)...
in the "space in time" between when the business hacker uses the
product
until when he actually pays for the upgrade, if he cannot protect
the stack, it could
make it virtually an unusable option.
<snip>
I think the free revMedia should not be over crippled. Adoption by
hobbyists is important to make the environment popular. By hobbyist I
mean people which will make a limited but happy use of rev but would
have never considered buying the product in the first place. I add
that a one month demo is not enough for a person who has a non IT full
time work to get acquainted with a programming environment.
RunRev can cripple the free version later; this always possible. But
give the baby a chance before.
François
a hobbyist with just enough money and interest to pay for a studio
edition.
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