Re [OT] Snakey Problem

[Richmond Mathewson]

Ouch . . .

I don't know why this has to degenerate into a sort of flame war about 
whether one has to pay for things
or not.

[Within the next few weeks I will have to pay LiveCode to relicence my 
Indy version of LiveCode - I am well aware
of why I am going to do this; and, which is probably the most important 
point, I don't resent that.]

If I had to pay something for Python I would: NOT because I like Python; 
because, frankly I don't [ why go backwards
to the sort of programming language I last had to work with in 1986? ], 
but because I shall be making money out of teaching Python.

"silly licensing"

My Devawriter Pro and my Balawriter both feature "silly licensing" 
because, odd as it may seem, I did not make those
programs for the love of it.

I started this, not to let it wander off onto pay/free or whatever, but 
to ask advice re setting up Python on Linux boxes
in my school

Richmond.

On 13/8/2018 6:57 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> On 2018-08-13 17:34, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
>> On 08/13/2018 02:21 AM, Peter W A Wood via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>>> Like it or not (and mainly NOT), I have to offer Python to kids 
>>>> this fall . . .
>>
>>>> Frankly, Python, by using this module system seems to defeat itself 
>>>> to a certain extent: or, maybe I'm just
>>>> spoilt by LiveCode.
>>
>> We all are <g>. But python has the best scientific libraries around
>> (www.scipy.org). And everything python is free and open source - no
>> silly licensing to worry about.
>
> Last time I checked you sold at least two products which required a 
> license...
>
> If you think licensing is silly, then why do you sell licensed 
> software and not just give it away for free and open source as 'public 
> domain'? :P
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>