[M3devel] M3devel Digest, Vol 56, Issue 31

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting felipe valdez <felipevaldez at gmail.com>:

> 2011/6/28 <m3devel-request at elegosoft.com>
>>
>> Quoting felipe valdez <felipevaldez at gmail.com>:

>> > is anybody in this list actively working on this?
>>
>> Probably not.
>> None of the regular users seems to have both time and interest for
>> much advertising.
>
> this is a very sad thing to hear.
> I wonder why...

Everybody deeply involved in his work or research projects?

>> > is having a larger modula3 community, desirable?
>>
>> Of course it is; any help in keeping m3 alive is much appreciated.
>> But you cannot command support in an open source project; people
>> will just do what interests them.
>
> this I guess is just true of any Open source project,
> which leads me to think really hard about,
> given this fact, how did it get so large and complex at all!
>
> in fact how did any OS project did got like that!
>
> it must really be in the interest of some people!

Modula-3 was developed mostly at the Systems Research Center of
Digital, though it was never a sold product of them. The code base
was always free, and later used in university research and teaching
and the base for a commercial distribution (by Critical Mass Inc.),
which then was released as open source again some years later.

Development was mostly done in university or enterprise research labs;
there never was much of an independent user community.

There are some dozen users left with very different application areas
and interests.

Any newcomers are welcome and contributions are greatly appreciated,
regardless if of technical of advertising nature.

Olaf
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