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Jim Simon wrote:Martin Schitter wrote:tiered payments for profitable exploitation of the same software, would indeed make more sense.
For BMD? Or for someone who wants the $300 features for less money?
for those, who can't stand all this lies about the targeted high-end audience, while compromises and mass marked related revenue practices are more and more altering the software for the worse.
those other products, which only offer usable free editions for education and strict non-commercial use, but still try to make adequate profit from professional customers, do not have to change the real goals and specific qualities of the software as much as resolve. and i really like this kind of software, which is still targeted to this very small audience of serious film production.
over the last two years SGOs "mistika insight" was IMHO the most important example of such an side product just for educational purposes.
it wasn't a free toolbox for everyone, like resolve, but it opened a window, to study a kind of software, which still doesn't make much concessions to a mass audience, just because of their trifling entrance fees.
if you wanted more than just learning and basic personal use, you still had to pay a lot more or find some other agreement with the manufactures, to use their software in a non-professional or small boutique like manner.
but that's perhaps the unavoidable price, if you want to keep serious software free from to much compromises and marketing lies.