[REBOL] Re: free REBOL?
From: maximo:meteorstudios at: 1-Aug-2003 14:57
yes we all forget that rebol is two different things
1- A suberb language platform, which IS free.
2- A commercial software developper, which has to stay alive.
Its hard to have both at the same time. Like greg said it a hard balancing act.
The problem is that everything (like employees, and marketing) costs money and word of
mouth is not enough when you have behemoths like microsoft which probably loose more
money per year in stolen pen and paper by employes than your total net worth and total
sales figure for your last 5 years...
You want to attract people, but can't cut in research $$$.
I actually wish rebol where free, but I understand that they have to eat and if rebol
where open source, then they couldn't keep the high-end stuff private, because anyone
could turn around and rip it off.
all in all a good discussion, no one's angry :-)
ciao!
-max
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