Open Source Kickstarter Report Card (Updated)

[Roger Eller]

I think MS learned a valuable lesson from RT with its limited subset of
apps written for the ARM CPU.  Modern MS tablets are using the new
quad-core Atom which is Intel.  It will even run LiveCode on a tablet!  If
Windows phone does the same, there's no reason not to support it.
On Aug 17, 2015 10:55 PM, "Mike Bonner" <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Windows 8? No. 10? Yeah probably.  If LC can be updated to be compliant
> with the UAP (universal app platform)  If I understand correctly, dong that
> means it'll run on win 10, win 10 phones etc. Not sure how the backwards
> compatibility works though, and its possible I am way off base here too.
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Peter W A Wood <peterwawood at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There have been quite a few comments and clearly a number of different
> > views amongst members of the community. I would like to add my
> perspective.
> >
> > The LiveCode Kickstarter campaign was very unusual in that the LiveCode
> > could fulfil all of the rewards without actually having to complete the
> > project. The rewards consisted of gifts and existing LiveCode products.
> >
> > In one sense, LiveCode completed the Kickstarter campaign when all the
> > rewards had been delivered. I’m sure that Kickstarter would take this
> view.
> >
> > LiveCode kept to the biggest promise it made, LiveCode has been
> > open-sourced under the GPL and is freely accessible on Github.
> >
> > That leaves the other promises made during the Kickstarter campaign. Some
> > made initially, some made as stretch goals. I have no doubt that these
> > promises were very genuine. Clearly, LiveCode hasn’t been able to deliver
> > them in the time they expected. This could be to any number of causes;
> > under estimating and resources not being available being the most likely.
> >
> > To their great credit, the LiveCode team still appears to be committed to
> > meeting its Kickstarter promises even though the funds raised to do so
> must
> > have run out a long time ago.
> >
> > My concern is that it is human nature to push promises made a long time
> > ago to the back of our minds. If my report card serves any purpose, it is
> > simply to keep the promises in view.
> >
> > I would like the promises to be kept. However, if LiveCode were to give a
> > reasonable explanation (with an apology) why a promise could no longer be
> > met, I would accept it given that I got my rewards, LiveCode has been
> > open-sourced, and many of the “feature” promises have been met.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > PS Does anybody still think it is worth LiveCode supporting Windows 8
> > Phone?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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