Well, I must say I have been using REBOL for some time now and very amazed at its power and potential. I was a little taken back by the Royalty program I was considering. Money really wasn't this issue, as much as verification. I would rather just buy licenses as sales dictate instead of opening up my financials for RT to view. I think RT is probably busy with alot of work. After all this is their "work" and they have been very generous to alot of us with the free distributions of /core and /view. I, like others, believe sound should be included part of /core product but in time I think RT will see the same. I also believe that RT will be much more willing to distribute or bundle these components when they start getting the sales. I have purchased commercial license for /View/Pro and like it alot. RT, if your listening, open up that Alliance program with the option to buy individual licensing as sales dictate or blocks of licenses for our distribution without the need for us to whip out our GL's.
Paul Tretter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scot Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Thought I'd respond off list for this. I've been lurking for a couple months becuase I'm doing some research on whether or not Rebol can be a viable option in a project I'm involved with. I've asked a few questions on the list as well, but from what I can see, Rebol programmers aren't interested (in general) in revenue generating projects but rather new ways to add 1 +2. Unfortunately, the Rebol company doesn't really care about Rebol advancing in the Internet area either- they won't even consider creating a browser plugin and I've been told several different times about this stance. I imagine they are more thoughtful about getting Rebol into cell phones and other hand held devices. It's rather unfortunate, really. The EULA for Rebol is kind of restrictive, as well. I currently develop with the MIVA cgi scripting language (miva.com) which is nice, but of course not "executable" like Rebol, but Miva corp is all about revenue from the Internet and all of the developers who work with it have been reaping the benefits. Bottom line is that I dont think Rebol programmers or Rebol Corp is all that interested in really making this language the forefront of Internet development technology, which is of course the way of the future. This is so apparent that I am considering putting my group's project on hold until Flash comes out with their executable language. Anyhow, I wanted to let you know a bystander's thoughts on this. Regards, Scot Ranney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Brownell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:21 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: MIT article on rebol and other languages > > <begin rant> > I've made numerous attempts on this list to get organized and form some > think tanks or whatever, with nay a single response?? > > What gives? My only guess is that the Rebol community, or at least the > part that actually reads these posts, is really rather small. The "law of > big numbers" would have kicked in had their been a big number of readers, > and someone, anyone, would have responded... surely. > > Another example is the www.Rebols.com website. Really, an experiment in > potential Reblet type commercialization... numerous posts here... and not a > single sale??? I mean, theres a developer reblet there that turns any script > into the world's easiest macro creation utility ever! > > I've taken Rebol and created a 'bot' that can read, comprehend, and > answer questions on whatever it's just read (In discussions with > biography.com on that one) ... developed the world's most advanced > chatterbot, the world's most HAL 9000ish system on the planet to date (check > out a demo conversation at http://24.77.230.151/lfred/demos/lfred.mp3) and > yet no one seems to care? > > And IOS seems to be (although im not in the loop to really answer) > suffering from the same problem as Rebol itself... you build a better mouse > trap, and the world DOESN'T beat a path to your door. > > So I guess my question would be.. why not? But then the responses would > stumble and fall back into the discussion realm with things like the "Rebol > should be open source" garbage. > > Which really, like everything else, is just talk. Lots of talk, and no > killer apps. > <end rant> > > Yours truly, the 3 a.m. philosopher... > > T Brownell > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rishi Oswal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 11:17 PM > Subject: [REBOL] MIT article on rebol and other languages > > > > Hi. I didn't see it mentioned. But here is a nice > > article on "Lightweight Languages." There is a > > paragraph on rebol with some insights from Joe > > Marshall (main implementor of first version of > > rebol..or so the article says..) > > > > It classifies languages like python and perl as "worse > > is better" languages and rebol as "a classic case of > > the right thing." > > > > Enjoy, > > > > Rishi > > > > http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=2287/ddj0202a/0202a.htm > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > > http://sports.yahoo.com > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > > subject, without the quotes. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes. -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
