Re: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> Big News!
>
> I woke up this morning, the sun was shining, the birds
> were singing, and ...
>
> After considering various ways to make a big impact
> on the future of Euphoria for v3.0, including various schemes
> to partially open up the source while still retaining some
> income, I have finally decided to make Euphoria completely
> free of charge, and completely open source.
>
> This will cost me money, but I can't see the current
> system going on much longer, where a whole programming
> language community is dependent on one guy to add features,
> fix bugs etc. The amount of code that I have to maintain
> has been steadily growing over the years, and I have to
> admit that my progress has been slowing.
>
> I'd like to make everything Public Domain, but if
> anyone feels that the GNU license is a better way to go,
> speak up.
>
> I'm not going anywhere, but I expect that I will do
> somewhat less low-level coding and testing, and more coordinating
> and integrating of code that others develop. I will keep
> the Web site going as usual, and keep a usable version
> of Euphoria, that has my "blessing", on it at all times.
> (I'll allow other non-blessed versions as well.)
> Hopefully we can move away from the 1.5 years between
> releases model, to something where releases occur on
> a much shorter time interval. Certainly, it will be easier
> to do short-interval releases when there isn't money involved.
>
> Other advantages:
>
> - Euphoria will be ported to more platforms
>
> - since it's free it will gain more users
>
> - since lots of people will have the source, and will be
> familiar with it, there will be no long-term
> risk from RDS "disappearing"
>
> - features will be added by smart people that will go
> beyond what RDS was likely to ever do
>
> - I won't have to waste time on marketing, advertising,
> processing registrations, sending new download instructions
> to people who lost them etc.
>
> - I (we) won't have to maintain both free and registered versions
> of things
>
> - people who may have wanted to contribute to Euphoria,
> but did not like the idea of giving their time free
> to RDS, will now be less inhibited
>
> What I plan to do is put aside the feature list for 3.0
> for now (I've only completed a few more small items lately
> while wrestling with this open source decision),
> freeze the code as it is today on my disk, and put out a totally
> free release. I'll call it 3.0 alpha. The download packages
> (DOS/Windows and Linux/FreeBSD) will contain the registered
> translator and binder, and the full source code
> (including C backend code). It may take me a few weeks to
> get all this organized. I'll have to make a lot of changes
> to the Web site as well, since we won't be selling anything
> anymore. (We'll still be getting a buck or two a day from Google ads!)
>
> Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
Hi Rob,
Wow ok, well then dont worry about the EUforum window being too small
then 
Take care,
Al
E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!
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From "Black Knight":
"I can live with losing the good fight,
but i can not live without fighting it".
"Well on second thought, maybe not."
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