I am surprised that anyone would expect a lot of coding help to rise out of the LC community. Sure there are a few who have experience in the lower level languages, but my sole reason in choosing LC was for the English-like syntax. I don't know, nor do I want to learn C or Objective C or anything else. I started with HC, and it ends with LC for me. On Aug 16, 2015 5:34 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> You're right. It was also it increase the user base, which it did > considerably, so that LC would become better known and accepted generally. > As you say, the move to open source was also meant to allow others to > contribute to the engine so that fixes and new features would be > incorporated more quickly. Unfortunately that hasn't been the case; except > for a few skilled people (actually I can only think of two offhand) the > community has not done much there. > > I've contributed a tiny little bit to fix an IDE bug but that's about as > far as my own skills go. > > > On 8/16/2015 3:07 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > >> In my opinion, it was to give it a chance to grow, by incorporating other >> open tech, and also to just KEEP UP with the ever changing tech world >> without consuming the inadequate resources of the mother ship. >> On Aug 16, 2015 2:46 AM, "Terence Heaford" <t.heaf...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 16 Aug 2015, at 07:42, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I thought THE objective of the KickStarter Campaign was to make LC Open >>>> Source and Free to the Community. Wasn't that achieved? Everything else >>>> >>> was >>> >>>> just secondary but in support of that goal. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Can you give us your opinion as to why LC was made Open Source? >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Terry >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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