Quote Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber View Post
I know it is hard for some to understand but we do need to find some way of reimbursing developers for their valuable time. Capitalist methods do work to stimulate people to take time from their main income source and divert their time to creating for us all. Some sort of medium of exchange assists that. Assuming that you are American (just a guess), you should be familiar with the concepts.

I expect to pay to be able to create 64bit binaries and do some of the advanced stuff that I am expecting that TB will enable us to do, otherwise we can just continue to write code in VB6 and wait for communism to take over.

Update: I don't remember the correct price for VB6 in 1999 but I have a number in my mind of approx. 250 GBP. That equates to approx. 550 GBP today. At 26 GBP per month for TB, it feels a little expensive (I think I'd be more than happy with ten quid or so) but you can obtain the community edition for free and upgrade when you need to create your binaries.
Such is true and yes I do understand those concepts well as I am well versed in modern business and its realities. I just don't think that a subscription model is warranted for this. Even MS didn't do that with VB6. MS did it with products/markets (office 365) where it made sense(mostly).

If TwinBasic is as good as it claims, success will follow without need for the subscription bit. They should at least also offer a one-time purchase alternative, as some other subscription-based software vendors do.

Let us suppose that you are developing an app in TB for whatever reason or need. Hobby, pro, special application, whatever.

Say it takes you weeks, months, maybe years to develop this. It is costing you every single day/week/month whether you work on it or not. In just a year you have $420 USD invested in your project, and it doesn't stop. And if you fail to pay for whatever reason, you may find that your whole show has stopped dead in it's tracks. Plus, for many, its just another annoying monthly bill to pay and keep track of. No thanks I have enough already.

OTOH, say I buy a licensed copy of TwinBasic for, lets say, that same $420 and install it on my computer with perhaps 1 year of support/1 major upgrade. I need not worry that it will cease to function if I can't pay every month for some reason or if I move high into the Himalayan mountains whilst running my laptop on solar power and want to continue to work on my software. Maybe I'm not able to run the latest version of TB but then VB6 still works so ?.

Just my opinion of course but unless the TB folks offer an outright purchase alternative I will look elsewhere....