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[REBOL] Re: Community (was IOS).

From: carl:cybercraft at: 19-Mar-2002 20:50

On 19-Mar-02, Terry Brownell wrote:
> So, if RT is going to just concentrate on apps, then why not offer > Pro and command for free? Of course, if View/Pro/Command is making > ANY decent money at all, then forget it, but if not, why not. I > don't see Rebol growing too quickly given all the options out there > that have 2000 times the community, and are free as well. > Of course, if it was opened, then the community would grow as well.
I'm not sure what the difference between open-and-free and closed-and-free would be with regards to REBOL's popularity, but there's a great example of the difference between free and not-free on download.com. Go here... http://download.cnet.com/ enter REBOL in the search engine and this is the result you get... Core - freeware - 2,946 downloads. View - shareware, $49 - 222 downloads. People like free. Personally I would've prefered RT to be selling developers' versions of REBOL with "player" versions for free, (no Console and help and stuff perhaps), but I acknowledge REBOL's a very hard language to work out how to sell. -- Carl Read