Hi Francis A first indication is the number of people credited for supporting the open source version in the about box: 868. (= number of items of the last line of fld “Credit” of cd 1 of stack “revAbout”)
Jacques > Le 7 nov. 2014 à 13:20, Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr> a écrit : > > Hi from Beautiful Brittany, > > As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking > myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?” > I don’t know whether Company Policy would prohibit divulging such > delicate information, but I would love to know the impact of LiveCode > on the computer community as a whole. > I don’t expect precise and confidential data as an answer, but MAYBE > LiveCode officials could give us some idea …….. > > 1 - Paying Livecode Users for fun > 2 - Paying LiveCode users for commercial purposes > 3 - Breakdown of LiveCode users by Version > 4 - The impact of “Free” liveCode upon the community > (great idea, but …. does it work, commercially ?) > > Maybe percentages would be acceptable, rather than numbers ? > > I personally talk about LiveCode to my buddies, but find that few > are ever interested in “programming”, often because they think it is > too complicated, or else they have no obvious reason to program. > So we (I mean “US”) may be strange beasts that others would call > “geeks”, when I personally do not think that we are. > Perhaps we are all “ex” programmers, “ex” analysts, or at least “ex” > (or current) computer personnel ? “Un monde à part”, as the French > would say ? > > Are my questions too close to the bone ? Do they fall on stony ground ? > Is there anybody out there who is interested, like me ? > Is it such a closely guarded secret that we, as faithful users of LiveCode > can not see where we stand ?After all, it’s only another computer app. > Or is it ? …… > > With bated breath ……. > > -Francis > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ****************************************** Prof. Jacques Hausser Department of Ecology and Evolution Biophore / Sorge University of Lausanne CH 1015 Lausanne please use my private address: 6 route de Burtigny CH-1269 Bassins tel: ++ 41 22 366 19 40 mobile: ++ 41 79 757 05 24 E-Mail: jacques.haus...@unil.ch ******************************************* _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
