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Post by turbov21 on Nov 5, 2007 10:38:07 GMT -5
Carl, I hope this forum is the place to ask this... Up in the Financing RB thread, you said, "A free version isn't out of the question, provided some clever marketing scheme can be designed." I was kind of pondering on this and struck upon a kind of side thought: how will I be able to distribute my programs to other people? Let me offer the model I'm thinking of before I go any further. I think Run BASIC, along with the growing adoption of Broadband, has the potential to upset the current social software scene by tearing down the silo walls that Facebook and MySpace have erected...maybe not this year, but in the next two years. People won't log in to MySpace to update their bloge and photos, they'll use their Run BASIC programs and put pictures on their own server. It'll be a peer-to-peer model, not the host-in-the-middle model like it is now. To do this, however, people are going to need some way to at least run Run BASIC programs. I'm wondering if you're going to release a small, Run BASIC runtime/faceless server that RB developers can distribute the same way Liberty BASIC developers can distribute their compiled programs with those DLL libraries. I hope that makes sense. I haven't had any caffeine this morning!
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Post by Jerry Muelver on Nov 5, 2007 10:44:35 GMT -5
Andrew, why not use Liberty BASIC for the client-side program?
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Post by turbov21 on Nov 5, 2007 11:01:12 GMT -5
Andrew, why not use Liberty BASIC for the client-side program? Because the client-side program needs to be a web server and execute Run BASIC code. I could probably use Liberty BASIC to make a spiffier interface for managing files, blog entries, etc. on the desktop, but the idea I'm kicking around ultimately requires the computer to be able to both serve files on the web as well as consume them. As far as I can tell, Run BASIC does this much better than Liberty BASIC.
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Post by carlgundel on Nov 5, 2007 11:41:50 GMT -5
Carl, I hope this forum is the place to ask this... Up in the Financing RB thread, you said, "A free version isn't out of the question, provided some clever marketing scheme can be designed." I was kind of pondering on this and struck upon a kind of side thought: how will I be able to distribute my programs to other people? Let me offer the model I'm thinking of before I go any further. I think Run BASIC, along with the growing adoption of Broadband, has the potential to upset the current social software scene by tearing down the silo walls that Facebook and MySpace have erected...maybe not this year, but in the next two years. People won't log in to MySpace to update their bloge and photos, they'll use their Run BASIC programs and put pictures on their own server. It'll be a peer-to-peer model, not the host-in-the-middle model like it is now. To do this, however, people are going to need some way to at least run Run BASIC programs. I'm wondering if you're going to release a small, Run BASIC runtime/faceless server that RB developers can distribute the same way Liberty BASIC developers can distribute their compiled programs with those DLL libraries. I hope that makes sense. I haven't had any caffeine this morning! I'll have to kick this idea around. I'm not sure how to do it, and I'm not sure I should. -Carl
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