Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

[J. Landman Gay]

Yes, I think most of us old timers are like that. I think the idea was that new users coming from other languages would get involved though. 


On August 16, 2015 10:30:25 PM CDT, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:
>I am surprised that anyone would expect a lot of coding help to rise
>out of
>the LC community.  Sure there are a few who have experience in the
>lower
>level languages, but my sole reason in choosing LC was for the
>English-like
>syntax.  I don't know, nor do I want to learn C or Objective C or
>anything
>else.  I started with HC, and it ends with LC for me.
>On Aug 16, 2015 5:34 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>wrote:
>
>> You're right. It was also it increase the user base, which it did
>> considerably, so that LC would become better known and accepted
>generally.
>> As you say, the move to open source was also meant to allow others to
>> contribute to the engine so that fixes and new features would be
>> incorporated more quickly. Unfortunately that hasn't been the case;
>except
>> for a few skilled people (actually I can only think of two offhand)
>the
>> community has not done much there.
>>
>> I've contributed a tiny little bit to fix an IDE bug but that's about
>as
>> far as my own skills go.
>>
>>
>> On 8/16/2015 3:07 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
>>
>>> In my opinion, it was to give it a chance to grow, by incorporating
>other
>>> open tech, and also to just KEEP UP with the ever changing tech
>world
>>> without consuming the inadequate resources of the mother ship.
>>> On Aug 16, 2015 2:46 AM, "Terence Heaford" <t.heaford at icloud.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 16 Aug 2015, at 07:42, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought THE objective of the KickStarter Campaign was to make LC
>Open
>>>>> Source and Free to the Community. Wasn't that achieved? Everything
>else
>>>>>
>>>> was
>>>>
>>>>> just secondary but in support of that goal.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you give us your opinion as to why LC was made Open Source?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Terry
>>>>
>>>>
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