On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Wolfgang Laun
<wolfgang(_dot_)laun(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
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.
I used dBASE IV in the late 80's which had impressive visual RAD for
non programing users to build forms and C++ extension but was
seriously buggy ... anyhow yes you are right about the runtime license
but it had a lot of fine print which hit us particularly hard (outside
US, in enterprise environments, etc).
J
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