oakpalms
11-06-2006, 12:38 PM
I posted this on another section, but felt it important enough to make a new folder.
Eveyone concerned about American content. If any payware developer wants to contact the individual who send me the following email this morning from some one very high up in the KRS developement, then send me an email message: oakpalms at comcast.net.
I got permission from him to post his message, and he stated in that reply, "we are preparing a pack to go out to several people who have asked questions. It was delayed with me being on holiday, but should go end of this week or early next at latest." Holiday means vacation for all of us on this side of the big pond--not just a day off.
"Hi Robert,
Thanks for the mail –
Kuju is talking to American payware contributors (and we have been doing so for many months – over a year in a couple of cases). I’m not aware that we have not responded to anyone, but if we have I can only apologise. In the 30 October article on the website we have both outlined the scheme and given a specific mail address for payware contributors to write to – hopefully that should mean we don’t miss any.
The licence price will not be high – our aim is only to cover the QA costs. In addition, we intend to be flexible in our structures, recognising that many of the add-on community run on tight margins and it is not our intention to restrict the market.
We believe that a level of independent QA will benefit all parties; and the cost of that is part of the licence scheme; I know the figures we are talking about and it should not have any significant impact on pricing for the end users. I’m not going to quote a number here, because of my comments above, but just to be clear, Kuju are not aiming to make money from the QA service at all. In addition, we hope that with our active support, add-on providers will be able to increase their sales.
We do have the specific add-on address you mention and I hope that once other North American content providers get onto that they will be able to get working with the toolset (and yes, we do have at least one North American partner already using it!). We want a thriving add-on market, and we want it based on high quality add-ons – because we see that as the best future for RS.
Hope that clarifies our position – if you know of anyone who we haven’t responded to, get them to write direct to me and I’ll ensure it gets dealt with. Further, if you think we’re missing a trick here, let me know because we are very keen to keep all of the existing producers in the market and would also like to help get them established in RS.
Regards,"
I hope this encourages everyone over on this side of the pond including large and small payware developers, freeware builders, and future users.
Bob Edwards
North Port, FL
Eveyone concerned about American content. If any payware developer wants to contact the individual who send me the following email this morning from some one very high up in the KRS developement, then send me an email message: oakpalms at comcast.net.
I got permission from him to post his message, and he stated in that reply, "we are preparing a pack to go out to several people who have asked questions. It was delayed with me being on holiday, but should go end of this week or early next at latest." Holiday means vacation for all of us on this side of the big pond--not just a day off.
"Hi Robert,
Thanks for the mail –
Kuju is talking to American payware contributors (and we have been doing so for many months – over a year in a couple of cases). I’m not aware that we have not responded to anyone, but if we have I can only apologise. In the 30 October article on the website we have both outlined the scheme and given a specific mail address for payware contributors to write to – hopefully that should mean we don’t miss any.
The licence price will not be high – our aim is only to cover the QA costs. In addition, we intend to be flexible in our structures, recognising that many of the add-on community run on tight margins and it is not our intention to restrict the market.
We believe that a level of independent QA will benefit all parties; and the cost of that is part of the licence scheme; I know the figures we are talking about and it should not have any significant impact on pricing for the end users. I’m not going to quote a number here, because of my comments above, but just to be clear, Kuju are not aiming to make money from the QA service at all. In addition, we hope that with our active support, add-on providers will be able to increase their sales.
We do have the specific add-on address you mention and I hope that once other North American content providers get onto that they will be able to get working with the toolset (and yes, we do have at least one North American partner already using it!). We want a thriving add-on market, and we want it based on high quality add-ons – because we see that as the best future for RS.
Hope that clarifies our position – if you know of anyone who we haven’t responded to, get them to write direct to me and I’ll ensure it gets dealt with. Further, if you think we’re missing a trick here, let me know because we are very keen to keep all of the existing producers in the market and would also like to help get them established in RS.
Regards,"
I hope this encourages everyone over on this side of the pond including large and small payware developers, freeware builders, and future users.
Bob Edwards
North Port, FL