OpenEuphoria

Re: Open Euphoria Licence

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Sep 26, 2006
• 671 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> 
> I keep reading on this list about how you are going to need
> version control and all these developers are going to do
> this and that.
> 
> My question is who are all these developers and where are they
> going to come from.
> 
> I only know of maybe 3 or 4 users on this list that have the skills
> to modify and incorporate changes into the source that would make
> Euphoria improvements.
> 
> I think that this open-source rush to judgement is blinding a lot
> of ordinary users into beleving that something magic is going
> to happen to Euphoria and 100 new developers are going suddenly
> to appear at RDS door demanding a copy of the source so they can improve it.
> 
> How many times has someone said "I'am going to develop a open-source
> version of Euphoria" and it died on the vine ?
> 
> Euphoria has to be found and accepted by many more users then
> it presently has. Mean while you wait for the developers to show up
> you are going to lose all the users that develop libraries because
> the incentive for developing the libriares will disappear; ie
> micro-bucks.
> 
> PS: Maybe well be lucky and mike the spike will return to
>     improve the langauge.  
>  
> Bernie
> 
> My files in archive:
> WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 
> 
> Can be downloaded here:
> <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan</a>

I can think of quite a few more than 4 or 5, but that will probably depend on
what type of license is employed. Just seems silly to me to shut so many doors,
when in all likeliness those other people will be just as likely to assist the
main project anyway.

People will learn how to make modifications.
It doesn't take a degree in compiler theory to tweak many things.

BTW, I know of at least half a dozen active projects, some open, some not, that
were at least inspired by Eu. A few of them are coming to fruition.