FmxLinux 1.0 just released.
FmxLinux 1.0 just released.
We've changed upgrade policy to life-time - you pay for the product only the first time and get all new versions for free and for life.
http://www.fmxlinux.com
http://www.fmxlinux.com
We've changed upgrade policy to life-time - you pay for the product only the first time and get all new versions for free and for life.
http://www.fmxlinux.com
http://www.fmxlinux.com
Darian Miller Thanks
ReplyDeleteI have mixed feelings about this. As a consumer, I prefer one-time (a.k.a. "lifetime") payments for new / unproven products or vendors. That's because they tend to disappear fairly quickly.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's the rub ... they disappear because they make a bunch of money up-front, it runs out, and they can no longer afford to maintain the product.
Or they sell-out and end-of-life the one I licensed. (eg., what Emba did with Raize Components, although they later decided to make them free).
Unfortunately, without marketing help from Embt or a large component vendor, I'd guess the market is relatively small for Delphi components these days. So this problem gets magnified because you run out of customers pretty quickly.
That said, I've often bought components priced under $50 just to support the developer, mainly because that's the price of a decent programming book these days, and unique components with source code are quite educational. But I usually won't do that beyond the $50 price point. (It's always more enticing when the developer actually writes a manual of some sort, rather than a 3-page synopsis of the interfaces and 2-line summaries of each one.)
Thank you Eugene Kryukov
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