Re: Liberty BASIC Booster

From	"news@rtrussell.co.uk" <news@rtrussell.co.uk>
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Subject	Re: Liberty BASIC Booster
Date	2011-09-20 14:19 -0700
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On Sep 20, 8:57 pm, "Gordon Rahman" <grah...@planet.nl> wrote:
> To make an .exe file with LB you need to buy a license.
> That's the only $60,- that Carl earns in his lifetime from you.

In my experience, the main reason for buying a full LB licence is to
eliminate the annoying and increasingly time-consuming 'nag screen'
that you get at the start.  Many users seem not to care whether they
can make an EXE or not, so there's little incentive to get the full
version for that reason.  But once the nag screen forces you to wait
several minutes before you can even start using LB, it becomes
extremely frustrating.

> With LBB there is no need for a LB license.

This is what it says in the LBB documentation: "LB Booster is
Freeware; you are strongly encouraged to purchase the full version of
Liberty Basic on which to develop, test and debug your programs prior
to 'boosting' them". I was persuaded not to develop LBB as a full-
blown IDE, in competition with LB, but to promote its use as an 'add
on' to LB.  I wasn't obliged to do this; I did it solely as a gesture
to maintain good relations with the LB community.

Many programming languages have alternative implementations available
from different vendors, think Fortran or C or Pascal or BBC BASIC or
Java... so why should Liberty BASIC be any different?  Most vendors
have to survive in a competitive environment in which to maintain
their market share they must keep their product up-to-date, fix bugs
efficiently and provide excellent support to their users.  Having a
monopoly can lead to complacency.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

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