Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
Re: Standalone executables (was Origin of IDL)
Andy Loughe (loughe@fsl.noaa.gov) writes: > If you want to distribute an application to many people, the Unlimited > Right to Distribute option is recommended. With the Unlimited Right to > Distribute, you license into your application prior to distribution. > When your colleague or customer receives the application, they install > and run it, without any further validation. Uh, huh. And from what I hear, the Unlimited Right to Distribute license is only $50K per *version* of IDL. So, let's see, we'll forget about those cheapskates still using IDL 4. They can't be doing serious scientific work anyway. So 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and I probably want to really get rich with 5.4. So for only a quarter million dollars I can be distributing my IDL application world-wide. Or did I miss something? :-) Cheers, David -- David Fanning, Ph.D. Fanning Software Consulting Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/ Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155