Re: [MacRuby-devel] OS X10.9 & MacRuby's future...

2013-05-16 Thread Ian Ragsdale
It's not so much the price, it's one more company that you're depending on - you no longer really control your own destiny. What happens if HipByte decides they are charging way too little, and they decide that it now will cost $5k to continue using MacRuby? Or $10k? I'm not saying that this i

Re: [MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

2012-05-03 Thread Ian Ragsdale
tion will open the door for creative people to come up with something >> equivalent of http://processing.org/ on iOS. >> >> That said, I'm looking forward to seeing Laurent contribute his new memory >> management system back to MacRuby and finally make it GC free since he &

Re: [MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

2012-05-03 Thread Ian Ragsdale
ther fund continued > development of it with a license than never to have had it in the first place. > > --Jeremy > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:15:52 -0500 Ian Ragsdale > wrote: > > That said, I'm wondering

Re: [MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

2012-05-03 Thread Ian Ragsdale
This does look awesome, and I just bought a license - the price is less than the prevailing rate for an hour of iOS dev time, and you deserve to be paid for your hard work. That said, I'm wondering if/when any of this will become open source? It's been a long time since I trusted proprietary c