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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:50 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Community (was IOS).


> 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
> 
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