Re: Updating user contributions to MCL 3.0

[Christopher.Young@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU]

>This move does at least signify *some* innovation from Digitool wrt
>pricing, which is much appreciated, but I'm betting that I still won't be
>able to afford to buy MCL 3.0 final for myself for home/fun hacking, which
>is a shame.  OTOH, maybe Digitool *will* take a lesson from MetroWerks...
>
>Marketing, quality, low price, and high volume is a great business
>plan...but one out of four just ain't enough. :-)
>--
>-- "TANSTAAFL"  Rich lynch@ils.nwu.edu

I think Rich makes a *lot* of good points in his post. I haven't
contributed anything (yet... I'm planning to eventually), but I
think he is right.

But in particular, I agree the part I pulled out. Digitool should
price the product so it is easy to get in the hands of new developers,
home hackers, who may end up using it to build a great new product. Then
charge a one-time commerical fee once it's out in the market plus the standard
royalty fee.

Plus some of us have been considering using MCL to write programs to help
non-profits. I think a lot of people... home hackers, spare-time developers,
non-profit charitable programmers... who take a stronger interest in MCL if
it were a little more affordable. Maybe Digitool would experience significant
increase in volume by such a different price structure.

				-- Chris.