World: r3wp

let's be honest rebol need money to grow !

e.g. Konfab, etc.

Or is it that nothing "makes" it popular. It just becomes.

Right Benjamin. At least to keep the offices open.

open source nature makes it popular or some killer app, otherwise 
how do you explain all that hype surrounding Ruby? :-)

having somethig cool to plug in.

Rebol has investors

yes some times i fell like a child nagging daddy to go disneyland

I will always wave the flag that Rebol needs a killer app.

Investors? OK then - what Carl means by "rebol team" - does he mean 
extended community support, like with View 1.3 project, or are Holger, 
Jeff or anyone else coming on-board?

R, that's right. There was a time when Commodore was thinking about 
porting Lotus 123. Personally, I think that strategy would have been 
good.

i think R/T need's a change of context, the actual time and development 
costs coud be reduced by some open code strategy  just an idea ...

R There are several people here working with Rebol.   The team is 
growing, but specifics are not clear yet.

My company uses C#, C++ and VB. Nothing "open" And they are taught 
that popular means good.

R, rebol prorities roadmap is completly out of line today

Carl mentioned making much more open source several months ago.

question for Carl. What does beyond View, IOS means?


Is it end of life support such that there will be a whole new range 
of products from RT that will replace it (and hence ...$)

That was mentioned again just now!

I will talk about Beyong IOS iin just a bit.

beyond

James, well you'r talking about BIG MS here tons of money !!!

Yep.

take the example of MySQL ... redHat, SuSe and others...

I think, in a way, we (the Rebol community), still believes the "a 
small group of guys can make a big difference" mentality. The "world" 
thinks that only a large company can compete.

you'r right about that

still lots of cuestions become to mi mind, in todays market

the questions gives you the answers :)

20 years ago computing whas somthing different, now days things get 
verry competitive

Reichart would know that, for example, that nowadays it seems to 
take big bucks to make a game. Again, I believe that's a mindset.

and dont forget propaganda !

Yes, propaganda. MS has adopted the IBM "Nobody ever got fired for 
buying IBM" tactic. Very successfully I might add.

rebol community likes to go against the odds :)

the returns are better

y, i have that kind of faith too

Ok, some answers on Gab's stuff.

this stuff is being tested now, ready by Nov 14.

Services?

referring to LNS?

It will support custom servers, and there will be a public server 
that everyone can use to search for Reb Services.  For example, if 
someone offers a service like World Time, then you can search for 
this, and then start using this service.

Reb services.

Since I may have missed something, what is LNS?

Lightweight Network Services , IIRC

RT's product for RebServices

Ok.

Last chance for any direct questions of Gab?

I should mention, Gab wrote this, and Rchard and Gab have been working 
with Rebol on a contract basis.

For specific focused features.

haha, one other person, who does not actually remember what the abbreviation 
means :-) Maybe a good signal to change it. Most of us will refer 
to it as a rebservices anyway :-)

Q: will async kernel be back?

On sec.

Carl's goal was to move it over,  but things got mixed up.  Some 
people had problems building handlers, since there is not critical 
management section.  So inside an asynch hander yo uput a print command, 
and it gets changed by other parts of the system.  So it made it 
too complex.