Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

Kevin Miller kevin at runrev.com
Mon Feb 4 12:53:46 EST 2013


There will be a commercial code escrow option too, but that will be aimed
at larger companies and be specific to their individual use of the
platform.

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Miller ~ kevin at runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/
LiveCode: Unleash Your Killer App




On 04/02/2013 17:45, "Mark Wieder" <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

>Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at ...> writes:
>
>> The OSS branch can never get orphaned.  The commercial branch can,
>>however ...
>> 
>> Now I'm musing about ways to deal with that; perhaps an exception that
>> allows the proprietary standalone to be built if certain events occur?
>>  a cod escrow?
>
>Thank you. I've been waiting for someone to notice this.
>
>One of the obstacles to LiveCode's acceptance in the Real World is that
>there's
>a single point of failure: what happens if something happens to RunRev?
>They go
>out of business (now it's *me* thinking the unthinkable), they get
>acquired by
>Larry Ellison, they do the HyperCard thing and just disappear...
>
>With a closed source engine and no code escrow we're all out of luck. And
>that's
>a serious impediment for any company that's thinking about investing their
>future in LiveCode as a platform. By open-sourcing the engine we've got
>several
>options. The community can take it forward, the code can get forked, our
>investment is future-proof. The only things that wouldn't be covered are
>the
>parts that you would need a commercial license for: stack protection,
>etc, and
>that's the same situation we have today. It would be nice if a code escrow
>arrangement could be worked out for those, but first things first.
>
>-- 
> Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
>...now that I've seen "cod escrow" I can't unsee it...
>
>
>
>
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