If the open source engine is to be modularised
would it be possible to lift it out of the Open Source version of Livecode
(this naming is getting clunky: there needs to be another name for this)
and drop it into a Metacard shell?
After all, Metacard is (bar the engine) now O-S.
Would it be possible to take the O-S engine and drop it into a "hollowed
out"
commercial variant? and the other way around?
What will be Open Source:
1. Everything?
2. The /modularised/ engine?
3. The IDE / GUI ?
Am I right in thinking that, theoretically at least, we could end up with
108 varieties of the O-S:
Bjorn's variant,
Klaus's variant,
Richard Gaskin's extremely heavy variant,
Richmond's variant ????
Some of these variants involving hacked engines, and some involving
hacked GUIs, and so on.
And would we have to design a family tree so that users could track the
provenances
of each variant to ensure interoperability?
If the state of the current use-list is anything to go on, we will have
a Mao-like
flowering; let's just hope the powers that be then don't start breaking
people's
legs and sending them off to collective farms in Tibet.
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How, for instance, would we stop Mr/Ms X from taking some components of
the commercial variant,
mixing them with some components of the O-S variant and peddling the
resultant chimaera?
I wonder how, exactly, RunRev are going to police the situation, and in
the event of
"naughty things" happening, enforce the law.
Of course the good folks in Edinburgh (where one has to put on a
matching twinset just
to brush the front steps) will have thought about this already (won't
they????) and
worked the odd thing out.
I am just being devil's advocate.
Richmond.
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