Hi Malte, I too have pondered the question. I ended up feeling that the "buy in" required by the commercial nature of the main product limits uptake by young blood (generally poor) in numbers necessary to create open source momentum.
I have watched Ruby go from zero to being on the radar in the interim, and few up and comers are going to latch onto runrev/livecode in the same way. The no cost versions of the product are limited by commercial necessity and those limits will always weigh on the balance of youngsters choosing between the full package in a "free" language/IDE versus a reduced package here. It seems a by-product of the necessity of RunRev/Kevin/Markula/unknown ownership interests et al. needing to earn a return on their investment. I have been discouraged in concluding that while the base may grow it probably can never capture the explosive exponential growth phase that the truly successful open source languages have that only come with a couple orders of magnitude of extra sets of eyeballs in the mix. The product remains a wonderful "secret weapon" but will always languish behind the frontier of the evolving landscape. I really wish that a wealthy benefactor like Bill Gates would buy the whole thing and release it all and let a thousand variations bloom and weed themselves out... Until it is absolutely no cost for the full version you simply won't get teens on board in number, the ones with unlimited time and no commercial obligations, and otaku like devotion to tackle the next new thing... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution