slylabs13 wrote > > Where else would we go? > > Bob > It depends for what platform. For Linux you would likely go to Python and use one of the gui kits of which there are several. I don't know about Windows or Mac. It would not be as nice or as easy, at least not for me. But the nature of open source is that you would be protected from the shifts that Rev is liable to. Others will have different choices, there are quite a lot out there in the open source market.
My point really is that the way Rev is handing this has dangers they may not fully appreciate, given the open source alternative. The more frequent and arbitrary the changes of positioning get, the more it will seem worthwhile to trade off basic attractiveness of the platform and language for certainty and a greater degree of control. I do think the price/positioning of the Linux offering is a roundabout long winded way of killing it, and think it would be better to do it direct and get it over with. Confronted with this pricing structure back when I first bought Rev, there is no way I would go for it. Then, like it or not, we will have to find something else, and will, and it will be liveable. People are quite put off by some aspects of Python, and I agree. As they are by other aspects of other alternatives. There is nothing I like as much as LiveCode the language either. But you have to accept that the product is more than the language, its also the market positioning, pricing, and stability of these, and the balance has really swung in the wrong direction on these, for Linux, since I bought in. For very understandable reasons of course. But understanding doesn't change that its happened. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/changes-to-the-runrev-store-tp4653931p4654095.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
