On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 12:49 PM Richmond via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> What seems to come out of your interesting historical observations is > that HyperCard went "wrong" when people had to start paying for it. > I think it was a series of things that went wrong with HyperCard. Interestingly enough WINE (open source) and CodeWeavers (prop.) seem to > manage to co-exist and help each other successfully. > I can think of quite a few examples of successfully making use of "FreeWare" and Open Source Software and building successful commercial endeavors from them. Another example that comes to mind as I surf apps on my smart TV is the streaming media platform PLEX, which is available on just about every platform, Computers, TVs, Game Consoles, Mobile, that started as a fork of XMBC (XBox Media Center) now called KODI. In fact you could take that further. As I mentioned, the NeXT software that became modern macOS, was originally built with a freeware C compiler, GCC. I guess it's easy to forget these days that large swaths of modern computing / networking is built on top of ideas and work done by those that came before, much of it as "freeware", including various libraries such as, drawing / graphics FreeType, Cairo or more recently Skia, or things Konquer / WebKit, Chromium and PDFium, used by many a commercial software titles you may be using right now (not naming any names ;) ) I wonder how much benefit those freeware projects get in return? I believe the reason why WINE changed to LGPL license from a more liberal license in the early 2000s is because they didn't! Taking it much, much further, the entire Internet (ARPNET), with its nuclear attack proof decentralized networking, is (was?) a "freeware", thats creation was largely subsidized by UK and US tax payers (yes, thanks Al Gore, hah!). > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
