[MacRuby-devel] RubyMotion: Ruby for iOS

[Ian Ragsdale]

Personally I'm happy to pay for it, and in fact already have.  I'd just like to see some of these improvements make their way back to the open source community, and be reassured that if HipByte for some reason doesn't work out, any projects I have built in MacRuby are supported going forward.

- Ian

On May 3, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Jeremy McAnally wrote:

> The catch in situations like this is that it may have never been written in the first place if Laurent wasn't able to take the time and dedicate the energy full time to build it.  Personally, I'd rather 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 <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> 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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