OpenEuphoria

Re: Open Euphoria Licence

• Posted by Ray Smith <ray at RaymondSmith.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.

I haven't seen much about that at all???
Who has said what they are going to do???
I don't think the discussions have started yet on what improvements everyone
would like to see .. wait until they do ;)
 
> 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.

If 3 or 4 people actively helped develop Euphoria it would be a wonderful 
start.  I think even 2 or 3 good developers could do some amazing things.

 
> 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.

I understand what you are saying.
I don't think Euphoria (from a users view - people programming "with" Euphoria)
will change much in the next 6 to 12 months.
It will really take that long for anything significant to happen .. maybe
longer.

Examples like Mozilla (Firefox) and OpenOffice.org come to mind which took
many years for stable, usable versions to become available.

The "Micro Economy" ... but everything you could get from Micro Economy bucks
will now be free!!!!  It just allowed you to get free or disocunted Eu 
products ... which are now free?? I am missing something?


I think I agree with some of what you say Bernie ... Open Source isn't a 
silver bullet.  Much work, oragnisation and time is required for valuable
things to be created.  Open Source isn't a shortcut, it's just a different path.

All the best,

Ray Smith
http://RaymondSmith.com