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

2012-05-04 Thread Jean-Denis MUYS
One solution would be some provision with an escrow, with the commitment that should Laurent's company go out of business (for business reasons or bus-hit reasons), then the full source code would reverse to be open-source under such and such license. But clearly, adopting RubyMotion for a prof

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

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Schaaf
Hello Laurent, This is great news, and kudos to you. With all this back and forth about open source vs. proprietary, what's forgotten is the simple fact that it's the developers that determine the success of a development system. On the strength of your announcement, I've renewed my iOS progr

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

2012-05-04 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Thu, 03 May 2012 22:54:20 -0400 Richard Kilmer wrote: > This argument can truly be made about any commercial tool you use > to build with or build upon. Not even remotely true. When I write code in C or Objective C, most of that code can just be used with any one of several entirely open sourc

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

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Schaaf
Oops! I totally overlooked the link to the technical stuff. But my question about the possible speed gains remains. Also, I don't understand the example in the section on memory management: @date = date1 Intuitively, it would seem that the value bound to any identifier would persist until th