I see many threads on the list about open source but no one is talking what this move would bring to RunRev...
I don't want to talk about the philosophy of the thing, I like sharing stuff, everyone here knows that, I just want to make this thread productive and not some eternal thread about opinions, the blogosphere is there just for that. We know there will be no OSS rev now, and even if the guys at Scotland decide to open it now, it would take months if not years till a workflow and community start working like they do there. It is not as if everyone would to a SVN checkout and start patching the engine. So now that we know that this will not happen and that if it did it would take a lot of time and organization to make it work on the same level as we have it working now, can someone please tell me what would we gain? I am not talking about OpenGL and adding features to the language, this can be done with a new external SDK and I know no language that has things as 3D implemented on their core level, they are always libraries, they might be bundled with the standard distributions. So let us talk about benefits, what benefits can we gain from an OSS approach, and then think do we really need OSS approach to get those benefits? Can't we create new hybrid or brand new original approaches that would grant us the same benefits? For example: Adding features - We don't need OSS for that, we need a better FFI. Porting to new platforms - We don't need full OSS for that, we need an abstraction layer, like a simple engine that would bootstrap the rest, this simple engine could be OSS while the rest is closed, like Darwin and MacOS X. Attract users - We don't need OSS to attract users, we need a better Starter Kit, demos and marketing, specially with new marketing toys such as blogs, podcasts, videos. So again, except for the fact that there might be a tsunami that sinks Scotland and RunRev with it, why do we need open source? We have engineers and developers working full time in the product. They are paying their bills and we're paying ours. I just want to make a theoretical conversation about open source become an useful conversation about goals and ways to reach such goals. andre _______________________________________________ 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