Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 00:26:48 EDT 2015


On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Terence Heaford <t.heaford at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> Can you give us your opinion as to why LC was made Open Source?
>
The OP was a Score Card on the KickStarter Objectives not a list of
opinions. Now I admit that English is NOT my strong suit as I barely
passed - 49.5% was rounded up to 50%, and so I can't read between the
lines I just read the lines, particularly the headlines so what I get
from this:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/29/runrev-launches-kickstarter-campaign-to-create-open-source-version-of-livecode/

Is that the objective of the KickStarter Campaign was to create an
open source version of LiveCode.

If my reading of that is wrong, then OK, it's my failure to grasp the
English language.

As for my opinion;

1) they achieved the primary goal
2) there were stated sub goals to that primary goal that have no yet
been fulfilled
3) everyone who contributed to the KS Campaign has a right to expect
those goals to be fulfilled
4) every direct dealing I've ever had with Runrev/LC over the years
has been positive and by a person/s who seem dedicated to doing the
right thing by the customer
5) I have every belief that the outstanding KS commitments will be met
if at all possible
6) the LC Team is a bunch of humans, not Gods, if it turns out
something is impossible, then it's impossible and they'll let us know
and I can live with that. ( I couldn't do 1% of what they do so it's
all impossible to me)
7) LC is a commercial entity and as such needs constant $$$s to
survive. As such Commercial License holders who are providing constant
$$$s should have priority focus by the Team to keep them happy and
coming back.
8) My $ contribution to LC is minuscule, my contribution to the
Community isn't much better, certainly nothing to the Engine/IDE code,
just some bug reports and hopefully posts here that occasionally help
solve someone's problem. If the OS Community was made up of only
people like me, it would be doomed. If LC as a company was banking on
people like me, it would fail. So I'm thankful for the Monte's,
Richards, Marks, Peters and Jacques in the Community and that LC
maintains a focus on it's real $$$ customers so that it has a fighting
change of achieving another of it's stated goals - 'every one can
create apps'. And I believe in that.

As to my opinion as the why LC was made open source. That's easy, I
have no clue as to what Livecodes annual turnover is. I don't know how
large, diverse or the makeup of their commercial customers. I don't
know what their staff number are, or their costs. I can barely
comprehend how incomprehensible the task of making a multi-platform
Rapid Development Environment is. In my opinion though, Kevin does and
seems to me to be an extremely intelligent, driven, goal centred and
positively looking forward individual. The LC Team should be forever
thankful that it is Kevin's opinion and not mine that drives the
direction the company is headed.

In summary, my opinion as to why LC went open source is because Kevin
believes it was in the best interest to his company, his employees,
his customers, his investors and ultimately to his goal to show
everyone that they can make apps.

1 hr posting : 0 lines of Engine/OSS code added : 0 bug/enhancement
reports to QQC this week.




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