{"id":1292,"date":"2021-11-28T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2021-11-28T16:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:19:41","slug":"if-you-have-money-to-throw-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/28\/if-you-have-money-to-throw-around\/","title":{"rendered":"If you have money to throw around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve seen lots of people say they buy a license whether they intend to actually use it or not JUST to support Xojo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If thats you I&#8217;d sure willingly accept what ever extra cash you have to put to things you wont use and I&#8217;m sure I can write you some in short order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course I&#8217;m being facetious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously though do you send money to MS for licenses you don&#8217;t use ? Apple ? Do you send Ford money &#8220;just to support their efforts&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure those are all giant corporations that probably wouldn&#8217;t notice if you did or didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how about your local grocer ? A small store you stop in during your day ? The trendy coffee shop ? Do you just stop in there and hand them 20 bucks &#8220;just because&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If not then WHY would you with ANY vendor ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that vendor makes a product you depend on, and they go out of business it is painful (been there done that at least once) But your single license purchase also isn&#8217;t likely going to sustain time for very long either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either they make a product you, and many others can depend on for a long time. Or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mean time if you have that extra few hundred $ to toss around I can think of lots of charities that could use it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xojo Inc. ISN&#8217;T a charity.  Why treat them like one and just send money &#8220;just because&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve seen lots of people say they buy a license whether they intend to actually use it or not JUST to support Xojo. If thats you I&#8217;d sure willingly accept what ever extra cash you have to put to things you wont use and I&#8217;m sure I can write you some in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/28\/if-you-have-money-to-throw-around\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you have money to throw around&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}