On 26/12/2013, James Fuller
<james(_dot_)fuller(_dot_)2007(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
case in point, DBase from the 1980's had a developer and runtime
license ... the cost of the runtime license was a lot lower but you
would need volume, the developer license was quite expensive. In this
instance, the RTS served as a 'dongle' to charge more money. I suspect
the emergence of open source licensing has helped diminish artificial
licensing practices but have no data to back up that statement.
DBase III was around as early as 1975, and IIRC, the runtime license
permitted to
many end users to run programs developed by a single developer with
the costly license, something that was not considered unreasonably then.
-W
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