LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

[Jacques Hausser]

Hi Francis

A first indication is the number of people credited for supporting the open source version in the about box: 868. (= number of items of the last line of fld “Credit” of cd 1 of stack “revAbout”)

Jacques

> Le 7 nov. 2014 à 13:20, Francis Nugent Dixon <effendi at wanadoo.fr> a écrit :
> 
> Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
> 
> As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking
> myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?”
> I don’t know whether Company Policy would prohibit divulging such
> delicate information, but I would love to know the impact of LiveCode
> on the computer community as a whole.
> I don’t expect precise and confidential data as an answer, but MAYBE
> LiveCode officials could give us some idea ……..
> 
> 1 - Paying Livecode Users for fun
> 2 - Paying LiveCode users for commercial purposes
> 3 - Breakdown of LiveCode users by Version
> 4 - The impact of “Free” liveCode upon the community
>      (great idea, but …. does it work, commercially ?)
> 
> Maybe percentages would be acceptable, rather than numbers ?
> 
> I personally talk about LiveCode to my buddies, but find that few
> are ever interested in “programming”, often because they think it is
> too complicated, or else they have no obvious reason to program.
> So we (I mean “US”) may be strange beasts that others would call
> “geeks”, when I personally do not think that we are.
> Perhaps we are all “ex” programmers, “ex” analysts, or at least “ex”
> (or current) computer personnel ?  “Un monde à part”, as the French
> would say ?
> 
> Are my questions too close to the bone ? Do they fall on stony ground ?
> Is there anybody out there who is interested, like me ?
> Is it such a closely guarded secret that we, as faithful users of LiveCode
> can not see where we stand ?After all, it’s only another computer app.
> Or is it ?     ……
> 
> With bated breath …….
> 
> -Francis
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