[MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:15:52 -0500 Ian Ragsdale
<macruby at ianragsdale.com> wrote:
> That said, I'm wondering if/when any of this will become open
> source?  It's been a long time since I trusted proprietary code
> more than open source stuff.  Open source projects can aways be
> forked or maintained by someone else, but if a proprietary company
> drops support for whatever reason, your codebase depending on them
> is in trouble.
> 
> I'm not trying to suggest in any way that you guys would do that,
> but it does make me a little nervous suggesting using this to any
> of my clients.

I have to agree. I have no fundamental problem with paying for stuff,
but I do have trouble with a code base that can't later be picked up
and actively developed by someone else if the initial developers
vanish. Apologies for injecting any negativity here.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com