OT?: Question for Tommorow's QnA with KB

[Bob Stockler]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:47:25AM -0500, Tim Fischer wrote:
| This is probably off topic (especially given Ken's statements about his
| position at this meeting today) but	I was thinking about something and I
| figured I'd throw it out here.
| 
| Why does a single user development kit for FP cost money?  Wouldn't it be
| great if some kid who just wanted to learn programming and happened to hear
| about this thing called FilePro could go to the web and download a single
| user development package to start chipping away at?  I know when I was
| getting into programming, I got the tools that were available for free (or
| next to free) figuring that I'm not dumping money on a development platform
| that I may hate or never turn into a profit.
| 
| Assuming that 1 out of every 10 people who download the development kit have
| a need to purchase the runtime environment, this could turn into a profit
| for FPTech.  Also, getting more developers out there isn't a bad idea.  
| 
| Now I know you've got the Demo version available, but last time I checked,
| there was a limit on lines of code per table - and it was pretty low (250?).

I wanted to test MENU EDIT II on Linux, so got the demo
version of filePro (5.0.08 at the time) for it.  It was
limited to one user - which is why I couldn't test its
behavior when a SYSTEM command executes an instance of
[dr]clerk to add records to a file.

The version of ME2 on that system has 1822 lines of code
and it runs fine and dcabe shows all of the lines.

Bob

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