| [News] Genesi evaluating interest in Rebol for Pegasos SDK | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 09-Nov-2003 15:36 GMT by Martin 'Senex' Heine | 78 comments
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Genesi has begun discussions with REBOL to integrate portions of REBOL into a free developer package for the MorphOS Developer Connection - or maybe even a full REBOL package for a "Pegasos SDK" covering all supported operating systems on Genesi's hardware. At MorphOS-News.de Genesi invites everyone to a brainstorming about interest in and advantages of REBOL's integration into MorphOS.
MorphOS-News.de reports:
"Genesi has begun discussions with REBOL to integrate portions of REBOL into a free developer package for the MorphOS Developer Connection. Genesi would pay REBOL a license fee for such a package and may bundle REBOL with the MorphOS SDK. The Corporate REBOL site can be found here.
All interested in such an arrangement, please express your interest here on this thread. Please be specific about your interest and the advantages you can see in the integration of REBOL into the next generation of MorphOS."
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| Posted by Lennart Fridén on 10-Nov-2003 12:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 22 (samface):
"Wouldn't it be ironic if it would turn out to be alot more interested Amiga users than Pegasos/MorphOS users and that Carl decides drop the MorphOS version and wait for AmigaOS4 instead?"
The true irony lies in the fact that REBOL as a language isn't going anywhere. If you're already into REBOL and has been so for the past three years (like yours truely here) you're likely to notice that no new official version of REBOL/View has been released for well over 18 months, maybe two years. The beta releases 1.2.5, 1.2.8, and 1.2.10 has fixed some bugs and added the odd function, but no _real_ progress has been made and REBOL Technologies has more or less satated that they're targeting the corporate market with their REBOL/IOS (not sure how they fare in that department though). The language and platform as such is left to dangle which is a great shame.
For all its technical glory, REBOL can't compete with outher script languages as long as you can't have shell access without buying REBOL/View/Pro. If you _only_ have got the corporations in your crosshair, fine, but where would e.g. Linux be if it only were meant for corporations? Where would Microsoft be if it never entered the consumer market with Windows?
I for one wish that I could portrait REBOL in a better light in my BSc essay than I presently can.
Now, for not being 100% OT and OTT, I'd like to add that Genesi's talks with RT can become relevant if and only if they can convince RT that Genesi is capable of building a much greater user base than the mere ~600 that exists today. |
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