Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

[Bob Sneidar]

Development software has the same conundrum that new OSes do, namely that they have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. There have to be enough developers onboard ready to release software when the OS becomes available, so that enough people will be interested in taking the plunge. 

Similarly, with software development, there has to be enough developers willing to sign on. A critical mass of sorts. I believe that the reason LC is still viable today is because there are soooo many devs from past Hypertalk based environments that love programming in this fashion that they have reached that critical mass simply from the spillover. 

I think the real key to making LC insanely profitable for RR is for us, the developers, to produce really good commercial apps on a regular basis using LC, and proudly display on our splash screens: Made With Livecode! 

Bob


On Jul 19, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> 
> Richard Gaskin wrote
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> If my guess are correct, in the future, someone will have the
> "brilliant idea" of recreating HyperTalk or a similar programming
> language in top of Javascript or Python and suddenly everyone
> will wonder: "Why nobody had think about this before?"
> Then you will read sentences like these:
> 
> "There used to be a similar language named HyperTalk, but it was
> limited to Macs, that never have a significant share of Desktop
> computers"... and ... "Still today, there are commercial software
> like LiveCode (Multi-Platform) and SuperCard (MacOSX only) that
> uses a similar programming language with great advantage, according
> to their developers and faithful user base."
> 
> I need to repeat again, what I have posted before:
> To gain a foothold in the schools, this platform
> have to convince the leaders to use LiveCode,
> not the followers.
> 
> Al