On 04/04/2012 09:43 PM, Tim Jones wrote:
On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Richmond wrote:
On 04/04/2012 08:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I've never quite made my mind up about HyperNext, and really wonder
whether it is worth the investment of learning a new programming
language. Still, it is FREE:
http://tigabyte.com/
Curious, given that it seems to be made with RealBASIC and the RB EULA includes:
You agree not to create an application that, as its primary
purpose, provides your application's end user with access
to RBScript and/or the ability to directly (or indirectly
through a simple wrapper) call functions in the Realbasic
framework. Such software creation is strictly prohibited
and would therefore be a violation of this End User License
Agreement.
...and the Tigbyte site says:
HyperNext is further enhanced by its ability to compile and
run REALbasic scripts during runtime. RBscript is a fast
high-level object orientated language that is ideal for
tasks requiring extra power such as number crunching, heavy
text processing and graphics.
Might not be a bad idea to point that out to the Tigabyte chap directly.
It looks like they are using an older version of Real Studio that came before
that EULA change to create HyperNext. That's the unfortunate thing about
license agreements -
I don't think that is unfortunate at all.
This would be rather like my trying to use 21st century copyright law to
protect a book written by some relative of mine in the
eighteenth century.
What does interest me is that the HyperNext chap is doing all this for
nothing (HyperNext is FREE); so, not only is he
getting no revenue for his work, but, arguably, he is directly competing
with RealBASIC who are losing revenue with
people using his product rather than theirs.
Interesting enough, he mentioned to me that he had had great problems to
do with getting a Linux port of HyperNext off the ground,
and stated:
"With hindsight I should have kept developing the Pascal version of
HyperNext"
which seems most odd indeed.
while you can create a new agreement that applies to new versions of you
product, you can't make that new agreement retroactive to old versions of your
product.
I surmise this because they're still building for PPC and pre-OS X platforms.
Tim
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