Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Wieder wrote:

> ...and do notice the final paragraph of the article:
>
> And what happens beyond Code Club? "Hopefully after two years with Code Club,"
> Sandvik continues, "they'd be inspired to strike out on their own and explore
> languages like JavaScript."
>
> "...well, we started out with Scratch and now we're off to javascript..." and
> LiveCode is off on the sidelines, wondering why nobody's paying attention. Sigh.
> Coulda been a contender.

I dunno.  I loves me some LiveCode, but I gotta admit that when it comes 
to marketable skills it's hard to beat JavaScript.

There are quite possibly more people around the world programming in 
JavaScript right now in the time it takes me to write this than the sum 
of all xTalkers ever.

No proprietary language, no matter how good, will ever match that.

The only way LiveCode could become such a de facto standard would be for 
someone to come up with a way that changing its license to FOSS could 
still bring in enough money to be profitable.

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  Richard Gaskin
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