Re: MF having issues?

"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Personally, I believe the whole marketing model is wrong. The runtime fees
are simply stifling any possible hope of new development by software houses
who want to sell their products in a competitive marketplace.

Exactly. Who, in their right mind, is going to start new development
using a compiler that not only costs quite a lot to buy in the first
place but also has not inconsiderable ongoing costs that bear no
relation to the original capital expenditure but only to generated
revenue?

The idea of runtime fees when added to an expensive compiler is
absurd. Maybe giving the compiler away for nothing and charging
runtimes might *just* be acceptable, but the present method is as
ludicrous as me buying a truck and then having to pay the manufacturer
a percentage of the revenues that I generate by using said vehicle in
my business.

Someone senior at MF needs to understand that if you buy a product,
you buy it. Full Stop. What you do with it thereafter is between you
and your deity of choice.

--
Jeff. Ironbridge, Shrops, U.K.
jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove the x..x round jackfield for return address)
and don't bother with ralf4, it's a spamtrap and I never go there.. :)

.... "There are few hours in life more agreeable
than the hour dedicated to the ceremony
known as afternoon tea.."

Henry James, (1843 - 1916).


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