On Mar 8, 3:16 am, John Doty <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Mark W. Humphries wrote:
> > On Mar 8, 2:50 am, Richard Owlett <rowl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> Seems Forth gets used where goal is COMPETITIVE COMMERCIAL advantage.
>
> > Exactly, for a business whether or not to share code is a commercial
> > decision not to be taken lightly.
> > I currently see no commercial advantage to sharing the code that most
> > differentiates our products from those of our competition. If on the
> > other hand we one day write a new device driver, or a some generic
> > utility for FreeBSD, for example, than I would have no problem
> > contributing this code to the open source community. But sharing the
> > code at the heart of our competitive advantage would be commiting
> > commercial hara-kiri.
>
> What does this have to do with Forth?
Everything. We use Forth for those areas which differentiate our
products, the mass appeal of the language isn't in any way a
consideration, neither is reusing other's code. It's only for those
aspects that are non-differentiating (and therefore generic) that
popularity comes into play and we go with the flow of the m*****.
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