Fwd: Re: [OT] Open Sankore

[Richmond]

A reply to a valid question Kee Nethery asked of me.

I am not sure why he addressed it to me alone as I feel my answer is
important enough for public exposure.

[and, Mark Weider, before you make the obvious comment about "Richmond
indulging in public exposure" I've done it already LOL].

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [OT] Open Sankore
Date: 	Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:04:19 +0200
From: 	Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
To: 	kee nethery <kee at kagi.com>



On 12/31/2012 06:09 PM, kee nethery wrote:
> Maybe explain why so we can determine whether your recommendation applies to us?
> Thanks, Kee

At least one of the developers on the Livecode Use-List is a teacher,
and may
leverage Livecode for educational purposes . . .

It may well be:

1. Open Sankore contains some features that are worth copying by LC
developers.

2. Open Sankore may do some things slightly better than LC (shock,
horror, heretical suggestion).

Just as I keep an eye on this website:

http://tigabyte.com/  (HyperNext), not necessarily because I would ever
choose to deploy something

made with it on a large scale, but because looking at how things are
done 'on the other side of the fence'
can be inspiring

so, when I encounter something like Open Sankore I have a look at it for
similar reasons.

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I believe that regularly checking on what competition or potential
competition to Livecode has to offer
is a healthy activity for anyone who uses Livecode to do on a regular
basis, much in the same way as,
while using Mac and UbuntuStudio Linux, I have a 'spare' machine or two
that I use for "outings" with
varieties of Windows, Unix, Haiku, other types of Linux and so on from
time to time.

Systems, of whatever form, do need competition (this is why totalitarian
systems, however beneficial
and benign they may appear at first, always go 'stale' in due course.
China, though it would deny it,
is surviving by modifying itself constantly.), this is as true for
Livecode as anything else. As we saw in
Libya, and are currently seeing in Syria, change comes about when people
start walking and/or criticising
en masse; those people in those countries did what they did based on
information they gathered from elsewhere.

Now I am definitely not trying to equate Livecode with Syria in some
funny way (for starters, Kevin looks
nicer than Assad!); but if one looks at the "also rans" and what
happened with Tilestack one may draw
some similar conclusions.

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Rant over.

Go out and play for the New Year instead of being hunched over a
computer!!!!

Richmond.
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>
> On Dec 31, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://open-sankore.org/en
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>> worth a look.
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