[REBOL] Re: It's NOT Free.. (was) Re: Re: The future of Rebol - achieving critic
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 22-May-2001 11:01
Joanna Kurki wrote:
> At 17:26 21.5.2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >From: "Joanna Kurki"
> > > Looks like that new license was kind a big suprise to many list
> >readers.
> >
> >Yes, you are right.
>
> And I hate it!
>
> Sometimes it nice to be right.. This time it's not.
>
> I still belive Rebol could be useful and nice addition but this licensing
> nearly kills it on my eyes.. I have yet seen full power of Rebol in action
> so I have not this enthusiasm to it..
>
> I was hoping Rebol/View to be distributed to some windows/linux-X PC:s
> (just guesses. 20 machines, and five of them in house rest on clients) as a
> platform for scripts to communicate with our ethernet-connected sbc's (like
> our lon-gateway.. accessing lon data via ethernet using UDP.. Our systems
> allow remote configuration and OS-/application updates).
>
> But 20 lisences.. with that price I could purchase both Delphi6 and Kylix
> (= Linux equvalent), make single source tree and distribute executables
> freely .. (no, I don't really like Pascal-- but what else there are? Java..
> nah..)
>
Wait a minute, please. If you don't need Rebol/View or /Core on each machine (I
mean the whole scripting environment), you can just buy Rebol Runtime and
distribute your app (in .exe form) for 1 USD per copy .... And this is fairly
acceptable imo.
> It's not only the money.. It's hassle.. I'm not sure how this licensing is
> supposed to handle.. Do I haveto take care of it (and sell those scripts
> over 100usd per seat to cover lisensing fees) or am I just going to give
> our clients link to www.rebol.com along with my scripts?
You could tell your clients to download /View for their "personal" use, but
it's very bad example of your business model then :-)
Cheers,
-pekr-
