Comments on: Licensing: "Free" != Better

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:28:27 +0000

Ok, you convinced me. You have a solid point.

By: jo

jo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:53:52 +0000

I’ve said it before. Your Tween classes deserve the money. Over many years of playing with TweenMax, I have found NOT ONE bug.

By: Teksetta

Teksetta — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:48:57 +0000

Great post, you’re absolutely right. I can attest to the fact that your timely responses for a product like this were definitely speedy. I’m sure you have more to do during your day than deal with the rants of people who don’t know what they’re doing, easily mistype something, or just get plain turned around sometimes such as myself. If I have to pay a small fee for a service like this and such a great utility as well then so be it. It’s such a small price to pay for the continual updates that you give.

By: Ofeargall

Ofeargall — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:29:05 +0000

I had a pastor talk about tithing one time. He was really nervous about it until a friend pointed something out. “There are two kinds of people,” his friend said. “those who tithe and those who do not. Those that tithe will stand up and say ‘Amen, let’s all share the load’ and those that don’t tithe will call me Monday morning and say ‘how could you possibly talk about money in church?’. So, I’ll talk about tithing and risk the complaints because, what are they going to do, not tithe more?”.

Keep up the good work.

By: Erik Hallander

Erik Hallander — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:06:46 +0000

Solid post Jack.

I still owe you another membership probably, just due to the fact that I’ve written more tweenmax code over the last 6 months than any other living human being.

Good read and good luck with v11 and all that it entails.

Hug

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:47:37 +0000

Was glad to fork over the money for this awesome library. Most importantly, you do all of the work and the price is darn reasonable.

What I don’t like about other open-source project is some leverage contributors into bug fixing and contributing, but only the original authors benefit from any revenue when they do a switch-a-roo on the license.

There needs to a middle ground where we reward passionate open source developers and major contributors so projects thrive. Maybe call it fair source.

Anyway, did not hesitate at all to ‘donate’ to your cause. Keep up the good work.

By: James Stone

James Stone — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:43:47 +0000

I pay for your product because it is good and it works, and makes me money and saves me time. I’m just so glad I tried out your tweening engine first, as lord knows the problems I may of come across on the way to finding it. Good work… well done… and as a side note… I’d not feel safe driving in an open source car!

By: Agustin

Agustin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:44:15 +0000

I absolutely agree with Jens Wegar, your licence model it’s such a clean idea, so could you release a GSock Licence Model under GSock Licence? I absolutely agree with your model and I’m just waiting for the project that would finance my Corporate Licence… that’s how I always do it, if a project requires a software or licensed stuff just add it to the bill, it always pays of, and the client ends up paying happily.

By: Arby

Arby — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:29:43 +0000

People who complain fall into two categories:
1. People worth listening to.
2. People not worth listening to.

Consider that when considering the gripes about a commercial license.

Anyways, another avenue for financial support would be occasional “donation drives” just like PBS and some free radio stations do. Just a couple newsletters and blog posts done twice a year urging users to join the club!

By: camdagr8

camdagr8 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:38:43 +0000

I think anything worth using is inversely worth buying. TweenLite/Max is definitely worth using – nuff said