On 10/8/2019 12:42 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Pi Digital wrote:
> Forgive me for saying but, except the bounty idea, wasn’t this the
> whole point of it going open source - so that the community would
> fix bugs themselves!!!!!
Personally, I try to avoid making claims about other people's internal
motivations. Since I'm not them, such information is unknowable to
me. I find it better to focus instead on what can be observed.
Researchware (me) backed LiveCode's open source effort not because I
ever expected to fix any bugs myself. I viewed the investment as
corporate insurance. Both of our two commercial applications are
developed in LiveCode. IF (and I hope it NEVER happens), something
happened to LiveCode AND it went out of business AND no one else picked
up support for the language, I wanted access to the LC source to be able
to continue to develop our apps under LC rather than be forced to try to
port them to some other language.
Richard is right. People likely sponsored the open source effort for a
wide variety of reasons.
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