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> How does one try out this beta? Documentation for Arc and arc.js will be available shortly. > Is this going to be open source? Arc will not be. Perhaps Pe
by grun 13y ago
> How does one try out this beta?
Documentation for Arc and arc.js will be available shortly.
> Is this going to be open source?
Arc will not be.
Perhaps Peggo once Arc has cooled.
- dictum 13y ago>> Is this going to be open source? >Arc will not be The project is certainly interesting and I respect your right to license it as you will, maybe for commercial reasons, but a closed source black box with relatively low-level access (like Java) makes me uncomfortable. I may be alone in my aversion to browser plugins, but most of what Arc could be good for would be better solved with actual native software. See Peggo: A GUI app for OSX with just an input box for the YouTube URL and a choice of where to download the MP3 file would be a better solution for that problem. On the devices where Peggo would be useful (mobile phones, for instance), Arc can't be used. Some things just shouldn't be web apps—I say this as someone who's never made a native app.
- azakai 13y ago>> Is this going to be open source? > Arc will not be. Are you using a commercial license for VirtualBox then (and not the default GPL)?
- jwcrux 13y agoThis needs to be answered.
- mej10 13y agoI am surprised by this. Will you expand on why you're not making it open source?
- paulftw 13y agoAuthor probably wants to make money out of it, why else do people lock stuff down? Funny how virtualbox licensing issue got overlooked, because we are all used to download stuff from github with an assumption that any public repository is public domain.