Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[François Chaplais]

Thanks for the kind answer, Richard.
Le 2 févr. 2013 à 02:11, Richard Gaskin a écrit :

> François Chaplais wrote:
> > OK, open source is the cure for cancer...
> > So I spend months, which become years implementing, say, a decent
> > math library for Livecode....
> > Who pays the rent?????
> 
> Alternative answer:
> 
> You may not need to write the library at all, but instead find that someone else has already written it for you.
> 
> Something we haven't considered much here is an aspect Todd Geist and I were discussing yesterday:  community.
> 
> When a software goes open source, esp. a dev tool or programming language, the community will grow many times larger than it was, with contributions coming from people you've never heard of a year earlier.
> 
> Our little corner of the world is about to grow.  A lot.  Many new names will show up in the list and on the forums.  As gene pools go, there may be a malcontent or two along the way, but mostly what we'll see are eager young programmers looking to LiveCode as a way to learn, and contribute, and make a name for themselves.
> 
> They want to help, but many of the big projects already have their bases covered, so a language like LiveCode is a great opportunity to contribute in many valuable ways.
> 
> And because LiveCode is really two languages, an engine in C++ and the high-level scripting we use with it, there are more opportunities to contribute than most dev tools provide.
> 
> Through this new generation of LiveTalkers we can expect to see dozens of classic algos translated into LiveCode for community use.
> 
> If we can pull this off with the Kickstarter campaign, we'll arrive on the other side in an exciting new place:  everything we've loved about the language and the community for years, just a heckuva lot more of it.
> 
> So the math library you're looking for may already be written by the time you need it.
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
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