OpenEuphoria

RE: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Sep 20, 2006
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > Jeremy Peterson wrote:
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> > > For the same reasons I'm against what Mr. Ryan proposed.
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> <snip>
>  
> > I'm confused -- where did I suggest that he *not* make it free?
> 
> Now I'm confused.  Did you change your name?
> 
> Matt Lewis

I thought you were replying to this:

Jason Gade wrote:
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> Jeremy Peterson wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Why would you be against dual-licensing? It would still be just one version.

If not, then I apologize for being confused.

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--
"Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection."
--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare
j.