I think the main worry here is how much info is shared to the community.
Carl has been around the block for a while and I am sure that he has been
weighed laid and parlayed, and intimately knows how IT gets stolen so
easily
in this business. Rebol is a work in progress and we are the lucky beta
testers
( and I'm damn glad to be able to use it ). There is 20 years plus of
planning
that Carl has put into this. The balancing act is very tough as the cost
of hiring the highly skilled help to finish such a monumental task and
fending
off the worries of the Venture Capital, and satisfying the developer
community are all pulling in different directions. ( not to mention the
high cost
of york peppermint patties).
I personally would like a support network at least as good as the Novell
knowledge base, big bucks to do that, and I am sure that in the future
it will happen.
I just hope that Rebol makes a large enough splash in the language market
to gain and maintain a large market share, the worry is if there appears
a r++ or maybe r#, or r## maybe from some big competitor who
has infinitely deep pockets... tightrope .....
I believe the caution that we are seeing and the very close playing of
the cards are necessary, annoying, but necessary
Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 10/7/2000 at 8:31 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I do have a sense of deja vu here though.... and I'm wondering if
> what we see may have something to do with possibility that if rebol is
> funded with venture capital, sometimes the investors have influence
> comparable in weight to that of the visionaries and the developers.
>
> The marketplace won't accept a product without these facilities, which
> doesn't serve the investor's interest. Everyone publishes
> knowledgebases and bug reports, including Sun and Microsoft. There has
> also always been the opportunity to post these at arms-length from the
> main Web site, at REBOL.ORG, as is done with the list archives, but
> that has never been done either.
>
> -Ted.
