buddy40: I'm pretty sure what they meant was that that sort of response is not conducive to the Construct community, and possible users might shy away from a seemingly negative community, which we seem to rapidly devolve into the longer these threads go on.
Ashley, since there seem to be a definite split here between people that are ok with the licensing model and those that aren't, I think it's time to cut out the community from the discussion. Take the responses and poll data you got from these threads and see if you can talk to a marketing consultant (or whatever they call themselves), if you're not doing that/planning on doing that already. I'm pretty sure that would be much more productive at this point.
It's great that you want to involve the community as much as you do (and it'd probably be a good idea to continue doing so), but in the end a community will almost always disagree with itself.
Only you guys should make the definitive decisions. They may be influenced by the community, but should not be mandated by it. Because then nothing happens when people start arguing.