Rev has always been fair to the point of generosity in my own experience, so this is not a criticism. Heather is always clear and helpful and friendly. And the language is very nice indeed.
The issue seems to be the trade off between open source and proprietary. When you go proprietary there are inevitable tradeoffs. One is the one we find here, that the terms and conditions and the product offering itself may change, and there is not a lot you can do about it. Again, I am not being critical - they probably change for very good commercial reasons, but when they do, you are relatively powerless. Another tradeoff I've noticed lately is from the increasing number oif proprietary plugins. Again, not to be critical, some are very nice. However, they have to be closed systems to work commercially for their authors, which has the unintended consequence of putting the burden of keeping all these separate bits up to date on the buyer and user. A key example for me occurred with the vanishing of Media. Also the changes to the arrangements for the Linux version. Very understandable, but a real loss. If one's needs and expectations are closely enough allied with the supplier, or if like Richmond and myself, you have no problem remaining on an aging version of the software, it may not matter and the tradeoff may be worth making. However, you have to recognize the incentives that are intrinsic to the situation. The effect is to make Python look better all the time, if you expect your needs to go beyond hobbyism. Its not as easy or intuitive. Indentation is vile. People are rude about WX and I understand why. There is a proliferation of IDEs, editors, tools which is both a blessing and a curse. But its cross platform, huge amounts of documentation from various authors, and in the case of us Linux users 'apt-get' and update it, and there you go. The lesson for the proprietary supplier might be, this stuff is always out there as a threat, the insurance of availability of source code and forks is always there to keep the open source guys honest, so you need to be very, very careful when making changes not to tilt the incentives too far in their direction. I just found myself picking a language to introduce a bright twelve year old to. Yes, these are the sorts of things that go through your mind. A discreet silence on the final choice! -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/changes-to-the-runrev-store-tp4653931p4654030.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
