OpenEuphoria

Re: Open Euphoria Licence

• Posted by Jeremy Peterson <ptl99 at hotmail.com> Sep 26, 2006
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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 have to agree with  you on lot of this, except for losing users because of the
Micro-Economy.
Or MTS coming back -  
We'd be luckier if we all died of Bubonic Plague.

Jeremy