Re: ActiveState seeking Lua community feedback

[Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>]

On 3 November 2016 at 17:23, Andrew Starks <andrew@starksfam.org> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Peter Hickman
<peterhickman386@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Gee ActiveState, thanks for helping out.

And now it's time for all of us to wonder aloud, "Why doesn't Lua see
wide spread adoption?"

Spreading fear and doubt about open source software licensing just to drum up some business is not going to help Lua see widespread adoption. For managers who lack the technical background and have a naturally cautious bent looking for the downside is what has probably saved their job many a time. They might not understand the benefits but they sure as hell recognise a liability when they see one.

ActiveState seems to be pushing this as their unique selling point. I don't believe that the Lua community will benefit from this approach.

They seem to be taking the same approach with Ruby as well:

> Why take risks with open source Ruby and community support? Your business needs a Ruby distribution that has passed through a professional QA process and has regular security releases

Gee thanks, I've been using Ruby for years and somehow it has worked fine without "a professional QA process" and the security releases have been just fine.

 

It sounds like ActiveState is not for you?

They used to be my go to for Perl and Tcl on Windows back in the day. To be honest I was surprised to see they were still around.