On 2015-10-24 21:08, Richmond wrote:
I don't think that "RunRev doesn't care", but I think they have promised rather more than they are capable of delivering in a semi-reasonable time-frame, and as a resilt they have got a lots of people's expectations up in a way that may be quite unrealistic, and it might not be a bad idea if they did a spot of retrenchment instead of keeping quiet.
Well, I can certainly say that LiveCode Ltd. (we ceased being RunRev a while ago ;)) does care - well, actually LiveCode Ltd. is a company so being a non-person legal entity means it has no emotions. So I should say, the people at LiveCode Ltd. do care. In fact they care a great deal... Enough in fact that many of them have invested a good portion of their lives and resources into the endeavour. All of them working far beyond what anybody could necessarily reasonably expect.
Certainly, if RunRev were to state something like this: "We would very much like to work towards Open Language, however we do realise something now, that we might have been unaware of in our enthusiasm over the Kickstarter and launching an Open Source version of LiveCode, so it would be unreasonable for users to expect anything near a fully open langauge sometime soon." That might let people who are wondering, that they care.
The point is that we have been working towards it continually. It is a part of the long term plan we have for LiveCode. It is just that (as you astutely noticed) the 'long' here is perhaps slightly 'longer' than we had predicted and hoped for.
Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _______________________________________________ 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
