there goes my thread :-( On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:27 PM, wayne durden <wdur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ 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