OpenEuphoria

Re: OpenEU

• Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> Aug 18, 2003
• 477 views

Hi all,

Can anyone provide examples of successful and unsuccessful forked software
projects?

I understand and agree with many of the arguments both for and against an
open source Eu competing with Euphoria.  I'm just curious about what has
happened in other instances.

Ted

--On Monday, August 18, 2003 12:23 PM -0400 jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:



On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:24:38AM +0000, Deric Wechter wrote:
> I also wanted to add that when it comes to massive and greedy corporate
> entities which pay far more attention to marketing than quality while
> eliminating all competition thus stifling innovation, I'm all for
> sticking it to such beasts the best way plausible- with free Open Source
> alternatives.
>
> However, Robert Craig's clearly a small businessman trying to make an
> honest buck with a truly innovative product so this lacks all of that
> maverick to hell with the man appeal of Open Source. There should be
> more companies like his in software.  Small software companies are
> embattled enough being the little fish in the pond without being forced
> to compete with free software.
>
> I realize some involved with OpenEU have made large contributions to the
> language and as respectable and noteworthy as that is, I can't see how
> that would entitle anyone to try and take the product out of his hands.
>
> -Deric Wechter
>

Actually, we're attempting to FORK the language, not steal it.

After OpenEuphoria comes out, there will be 2 types of Euphoria.

One branch will be the OpenEuphoria variants, the other will be the
versions of Euphoria post-2.4 made by RDS. Anything added to later
versions of RDS Euphoria will be of no concern to the OE coders. (The
reason for being v2.4 compatible is so that existing user libraries such
as win32lib will work under OE, as so much of the functionality of
Euphoria comes from user-contributions its either rewrite those
contributions for the new language or make the language compatible enough
that the old ones will work.)

Of course, it is certainly possible (especially with the current rate of
change in RDS Euphoria right now) that OpenEuphoria will overshadow RDS
Euphoria in terms of popularity, but it will also move away from the
original language. In the process, OE is likely to find its own niche,
and RDSEuphoria will keep some loyal users who like it just fine while
others who think it needs more can go on to OE. The idea was never to
kick RDS out, but merely to provide an alternative to all those
frustrated Euphoria programmers who think the language can do better.

I doubt Rob is very worried either, even with OE out there hes not likely
to start starving anytime soon.

jbrown

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