RE: Dynamo

I've mentioned this several times here with no response. Obviously
others are in the same boat and Macromedia/Adobe doesn't care. They
literally killed an application because they refused to continue to
offer unlimited bandwidth packs for FCS 1.5 and continue to remain
silent on the issue. It's the equivalent of Microsoft announcing, "We've
just released Vista today and in 90 days whatever current Microsoft OS
you are running will stop working.You have 90 days to make sure all your
applications work on Vista and you will be paying several times more for
less functionality than you had before."

The great work done by Ed and other developers on this product, in my
mind, has been totally wasted by uninformed people making terrible
business decisions. If they are trying to gather legions of developers
to use and promote their products, they sure blew it bigtime. Now I see
why Open Source projects are becoming more and more popular.

Is Dynamo the final "big thing" we were all waiting for in regards to
licensing? Because unless there is another piece to this puzzle,
frankly, it stinks. Is it really so complicated to add a 4th option -
unlimited bw/unlimited connections that only appears after you purchase
that type of license?

GatorEye

RE:
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FCS 1.5 licenses were no longer available the day FMS 2.0 came out. Most
people felt like there should've been some kind of overlap, and that
stopping all sales of FCS licenses that day was a way to force people to
upgrade. Especially since it costs nothing to issue more licenses, but
it could cost them plenty to upgrade a large app. They also seem to be
sour over the fact that they can no longer get 90 day unlimited
licenses, which means their current installs require an upgrade before
they can do any major events. No longer allowing people's servers to
scale or even perform as they would 4 months ago tends to make people
angry. And I know you guys didn't actually do anything to the servers,
but what you did do was design the licensing in such a way that
companies depended on the availability of those licenses, and you took
those licenses away from them. Unless they want to make a potentially
expensive upgrade first, of course.

ryanm

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