[vox] Fwd: REALbasic for Linux Standard Edition - LinuxWorld Award Winner (offer and conference announcement)

[Ken Bloom]

Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 06:45:26PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote:
> 
>>What's the license, both for the runtime and for development? I can't
>>find any information about it on their site.
> 
> 
> When you download it, it presents an opportunity to review it the first
> time you run it. There is also text-file version of it, which I will
> send you (directly, to avoid wasting list bandwidth).
> 
> Obviously, it's not a FOSS product. For a proprietary software product,
> the license seems pretty standard, nothing much to mention.

I was hoping they might have a dual-licensed runtime or somesuch, so
that REALbasic applications could be included in distros.

Gambas http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ might be a better bet. I think
they're working on ports (for Windows, the port would at least be to Cygwin)

>>From what I understand in reading it, you can use it without limitation
> (it's not a demo), to develop applications for Linux. In order to use it
> to develop cross-platform applications, you need to upgrade to the
> "Professional" version license key. There are some other additional
> features in the "Professional" version... apparently including the
> ability to develop console-based applications.
> 
> Apparently, they feel that Linux users will mostly not want to pay for
> their product when they can write Linux apps using the wide array of
> already freely available tools, which I would mostly agree with; but
> that they /would/ pay for a cross-platform development IDE.
> 
> IIRC, REALbasic started out being only for Mac OS, but added Windows and
> Linux as targets.
> 


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