RE: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!

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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> Not quoting Derek Newhall's excellent post...
> 
> While I have sympathies with the GPL for the reasons cited by Ray Smith, the
> points brought up by Derek are the reasons that I suggested that RDS release
> dual license GPL and commercial versions of the language.
>

Well, I would be totally against this.  
And Rob has already said he would do the exact opposite.
Quoting his original message:
>  I have finally decided to make Euphoria completely
>  free of charge, and completely open source.

> Other advantages:
> - since it's free it will gain more users
> - 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

All very good reasons too.

Jeremy

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