Accusations of confluence . . .

[Mathewson]

Maybe I am wrong: but, reading recent posts I get a funny
feeling that the MC IDE might be being steered in such a
way that there is not that much difference between it and
the RR IDE. Certainly the inclusion of components of the RR
IDE, while not in itself being a bad thing, makes:

1. The difference between the 2 IDEs seem smaller than
previously,

and

2. Licensing issues become more byzantine: how much of the
'sauce' will remain open-source and how much of it will
become proprietary - and how does one tease out the bits?

While it has been pointed out that Metacard licenses are
now only available when one buys a Runtime Revolution
license (which, at least, in some ways, makes the idea of
Metacard as an 'alternative' to RR seem a bit redundant) it
is perfectly possible to use Metacard, with a 10-line
script limit, without a licence (Oh, No, here we go again)
- how long will that continue to be possible, if, like the
'Bionic Man' an increasing number of its constituent
components are 'borrowed' from RR?

>From my point of view - the present version of Metacard is
not as feature-rich as RR, but is ideal as a tool to
introduce would-be xTalkers to the language (especially
since my present spat with Mr Rogowski of Apple - re
yupercard availability - is getting pretty purple).

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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