Give a bug a hug

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:
 >> On Oct 7, 2019, at 15:56 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >>
 >> Bug  bounties are pretty common.
 >
 > Interesting, but these are professional developers, right? Not common
 > end users.

LiveCode is a developer tool. We use it to make software for end-users.

A lot of discussion around LC's business is based around the world of 
software that was prevalent when most of us got started.  Back in the 
'90s most development tools were proprietary, and open source was just 
getting started.  Indeed, in the first half of the '90s there were very 
few viable open source projects.  Nearly everything, even dev tools, 
were proprietary.

That world is gone.

In the 21st century, while proprietary software still thrives in 
consumer segments, infrastructure and dev tools are predominantly open 
source.

LiveCode is no exception: More than 3/4 of its users are using the 
GPL-governed Community Edition.

 From an early-90s perspective, we can think of LC as a proprietary 
product that offers an open source option for evangelism.

But in terms of actual usage in the here-and-now, LC is more accurately 
an open source project in which a subset of the development costs are 
subsidized by an optional proprietary license.

New world, new ways....

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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