I think that for new potential users, the choice is simple: €250 euro for Xojo and as much time to make your commercial app as you need or €400 for LiveCode and being forced to release your app within 1 year. Meanwhile, I'm buying Xojo licenses for desktop every few years, because €250 isn't too much money and I know I'll earn it back somehow. Every month that I don't need to buy it, I save money for my customers. Thus, I try to avoid using LiveCode's commercial license for as long as I can. Big customers may pay almost 200 euro extra per project. The small customers would normally pay a few 100 euro but because I have to include a mark-up for the license, they have to pay around 10% extra. Suppose that I have 2 big and 10 small projects in a year. This can make their projects expensive, because I have to make commercial customers pay for the commercial license. However, for other customers I need a commercial license. This makes small Xojo projects very affordable for my customers.įor some of my LiveCode customers I only need the open-source version of LiveCode.
For small projects, the desktop license is often enough. Whenever you have a big commercial project, you can simply reserve budget for the Xojo license you need. However, if you're happy using SQLite and developing desktop apps only (who needs web apps and console features anyway), you can pay € 250 every 3 or 4 years to keep your Xojo license updated. (I think Sever is included in the commercial license, but it isn't clear to me what you'd use that for, unless you're using password-protected libraries on your server). Moreover, the command line tool option is free in LiveCode and comes as LC Server, while you have to pay €250 for a similar feature of Xojo, which is very much over-priced IMHO. That sounds a bit complicated to me and disappoints me a bit. There is even a separate license for databases except SQLite. Xojo has different licenses and provides different feature sets for different amounts of money.
The more expensive licenses are only required to get additional support or if you are a corporate company. LiveCode's license is pretty simple now: for approximately 400 euro, you are allowed to release commercial software for one year. I agree only partly that Xojo's licenses are simpler.
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