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Congratulations, Jerry

Thanks. Kaj. I always thought that I should do something for the 
REBOL community. But in REBOL programming, I am not as good as any 
one of you. Finally, I found a way to make my contribution -- writing 
a book and trying to make REBOL popular in China.

Congrtulations, Jerry. Hope the book sells well.

Thanks Peter. I will report the selling status. We should also watch 
the RT web site PageViewNumber from China since next month  http://www4.clustrmaps.com/zh/counter/maps.php?url=http://www.rebol.com

You're right, this is a great contribution

Great work Jerry! China is already in top 3 :)

Congratulations, jerry.

@Kay: RebRep is tied to Windows because I don't have a working linux 
box. I have tried to install Kubuntu 12.04 on an sdcard but it stops 
at the login where I don't know what to write since the most obvious 
"kubuntu" and <return> do not work. I have also tried ubuntu 12.04 
and it works but have a nasty bug configuring audio and seems not 
to regognize all the hardware.

I forgot to reset the beige background of previous message...

I was surprised to find my little project back on this new blog at 
rebol2.blogspot.com I hope this will help to show that there still 
is a bright future for REBOL ahead.

It's nice when a new REBOL user starts doing such a project right 
away :-)

Have you checked the new version yet? Learning a lot of new stuff 
about VID, getting more code out right the first time, etc.

Ehm, sorry, I don't have time

marco really cool

RepRap is soooo cool.

You can see some pages of my REBOL book here http://ww1.sinaimg.cn/large/6037fd14jw1duv0gjoatwj.jpg
It's a colorful book :-)

And a picture sometimes says more than a thousand words can. (Especially 
when your Chinese is a bit rusty like mine) :)))

But Chinese is a thousand pictures ;-)

I once ate in a Chinese restaurant in Thailand. The menu was only 
in Chinese. And Thai. Only the prices next to the pictures I recognized.

So you read Indian. You're already half way there :-)

nice work Jerry.

Nick, do you know under what licence and when?

REBOL open source? For Real this time?

I will believe it if I compiled it on my own system.

Very soon
 is how many years?

The conditions True and Not False must be met first? It is an interesting 
thought nevertheless what conditions are meant.

NickD has a close relationship with the investors

So finally good news :)

Should be this week

If so, I hope it will be possible to grind through the bug database, 
where development stopped.

I hope it's released with a BSD/MIT style license.

Doesn't sound like it

Very soon
 sounds very familiar, though

Kids in the car: "Are we there yet?" "Soon! Very soon!"

WOW, I'm so excited!!!!

We are not mistaking this post from last year: http://rebolweek.blogspot.nl/2011/07/news-from-robert-muench-about-r3.html
to be from this year?!? Then juli 23rd is soon.

No, this was an old effort for Saphirion to get access to the source 
code privately. It didn't work.

R3 was never opened for RMA.

Those are great sales figures, Jerry. and very well deserved.

Thanks, Peter. Maybe next REBOL dev-con will be held in Beijing, 
if I can sell more copies of my REBOL book.

NickA, it comes from Carl himself. Saphirion has received as separate 
and similar notice a few days ago.

What does it mean - open source, but with restrictions?

This is a really big deal for me.  Hopefully for others.

waiting and watching carefully ...

REBOL2 and/or R3?

It would only be R3. Spending time on opening R2 would probably cost 
Carl too much money on legal expenses.

Congratulations Jerry!
REBOL? open source? wow!

It's too early to get hopes up. The restrictions may be quite severe 
(NDA and such).

I expect it to have a clause, that you can't use e.g. Core.dll with 
own hostkit, etc., or any other product ...

we'll see, but at least if it allows R3 to progress, even if we need 
to purchase a separate license for locking down your own apps (like 
it was with the SDK, and may dual-licensed GPL tools out there) I 
don't think its a big issue.  at least we don't have to wait.

at least the platform can outlive a single person.   it can also 
be extended and experimented on in unexpected ways.