On August 25, 2001, Heather Williams wrote:
>Just so everyone gets this clear: the Standard single user license
>unlocks one edition of Revolution, currently 1.0. This license will not
>unlock any future updates, but is not time limited in any way. You can
>carry on using that version of Revolution for as long as you can run it
>on your computer. To receive continuous updates at no further cost you
>need to purchase a Professional license, which is valid for one year, but
>will unlock all updates released during that year. If you are a Standard
>license holder, and you want features appearing in a later update, you
>need to purchase that update as another Standard license. To sweeten the
>pill a little however, during the test cycle for the release of 1.1
>(currently in Alpha), we are allowing purchasers of a Standard user
>license to upgrade to 1.1 at 50% of the normal cost. So if you buy 1.0
>now, you'll get 50% off 1.1.
This does not apply to customers that bought Rev before July 3, though,
since Kevin wrote on June 28, 2001:
>If you purchase a Standard license from us before the end of the beta
>testing program (i.e. before Tuesday July 3), we will offer you an update to
>version 1.1 of Revolution at no cost.
IMHO, I think 50% of the normal cost for the upgrade to version 1.1 is
far overpriced. Don't get me wrong, Rev will be a very good tool once it
is really finished. Rev 1.0 has many known bugs and the developers know
them. The first version was released too early. Instead of fixing the
known bugs and releasing a bug fix the Rev team decided to develop 1.1
without fixing the bugs of 1.0. So users that bought Rev 1.0 after July 3
will have to spend another 50% of the software price for a bug free
program. They would rather have waited for version 1.1 in the first
place. I think this is not the way a good software company should work.
Unfortunately more and more companies use this model nowadays.
Re. the script limit
I have used the MC starter kit to produce a working model of a software
prototype. The 10 line limit can easily be bypassed by special
programming techniques that have been mentioned before. Therefore I think
the 10 line limit is very generous since you can even use the standalone
builder.
Lorenz
