[REBOL] Re: It's NOT Free.. (was) Re: Re: The future of Rebol - achieving criti
From: brett:codeconscious at: 22-May-2001 13:24
Hi Carl,
Frank can answer your questions for himself.
For me, I totally respect your right to be paid for your work. I also want
to say you and your colleagues at RT have shown yourselves to be most
thoughtful and reasonable.
I think the licensing issue is unfortunately so situation dependent. The
cost of a Rebol license is weighed according to the situation. As you say, a
company will pay for good stuff. A systems manager presenting her case for
an improved applications delivery platform for her users would aim to show
an added cost of USD 99 per user machine to be low. On the other hand a
developer trying to show off to management the benefits of Rebol might find
the cost too high. I think the View/Runtime has a role to play (assuming the
produced runtimes are free from restriction).
The term commercial is so blunt.
I want to produce a program for a company that allows three of it's
employees to update a jobs webpage without them having to know HTML. That
might imply three licences = USD 297 in fees.
I'll rephrase it now. The company is actually my sister's and I'm the one
who has been updating the site - for zilch - brotherly love. It is my way of
contributing to her cash strapped company. The program will save my sanity
though by empowering them to update the site themselves without screwing up
the HTML code. I'll probably have to keep modifying the program every now
and then to tweak it so in a sense it is still my responsibility. I don't
feel this is commercial - feels more like a sentence :) - yet technically
the benefit is to my sister's company - a commercial entity that will
benefit from Rebol technology (and me) because otherwise it would be paying
a design company or at least for a website editing program.
You are delivering a GUI platform.
/View and /Link are delivering GUI platforms (built on a network
infrastructure). In this sense View competes with Flash Player and HTML
Browsers. Flash player and the browsers are free. But to build the content
costs more, whereas with View building the content is not as expensive.
Again, maybe View/Runtime will integrate the pricing.
Lastly a request
I really like the way my View/Pro license key worked for View 1.1 and View
1.2. I've seen the example script that checks the id. I would really like a
how-to on how I could achieve similar if I needed to with my Rebol
applications. That is how I could distribute my own licensed components.
Brett.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Sassenrath" <[carl--rebol--com]>
To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: It's NOT Free.. (was) Re: Re: The future of Rebol -
achieving critical mass