Subject: Re: [xsl] Does XSLT have a run-time system? From: James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:20:24 +0100 |
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 26/12/2013, James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@xxxxxxxxx> 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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