OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!

• Posted by Jerry Story <jstory at ocii.com> Sep 19, 2006
• 685 views

Robert Craig wrote:

> 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

More advantages:

- Euphoria will qualify for the free software directory.

- Programs written in Euphoria will qualify for the free software directory.

Free Software Directory 
http://directory.fsf.org/