(Firstly, Curt, please don't criticise someone else for your own lack of education.)
Actually the word was being used in entirely the wrong way, so even if Curt had been criticizing ( which I don't beleive he was ) he would have been correct. Unless BlitzMax really is more "urgent" than Blitz3d.
By open-sourcing B3D he'd essentially be giving away his product for all and sundry to copy, modify and release their own product. Why would anyone do this with a product that is still commercially viable?
Oh geez, do people really still not understand the difference between open source and public domain? Open-sourcing B3D is not essentially giving anything away. If anything it makes it MORE commercially viable because he's giving them more for their money.
When you buy one of SSwift's systems, shadow, gui, whatever, you get the source to it. That doesn't mean that one person buys it and gives it to everyone else, does it? That doesn't mean he distributes it for free to all and sundry, does it? Of course it doesn't.
All it means is that paying customers get the source code as well.
TBH I think Blitz 3d should stay the way it is,
And why would the source code being made available make it anything other than what it is?
I really think some people ( not anyone specifically, or related to the quotes I've made above ) just like to try to scupper anyone else's reasonable request.
I would have thought that GFK would have been the one person on this forum least likely to be accused of requesting something frivolously and never getting anything done. I'm probably a fool to myself for even getting involved in this thread, but it would - in my estimation - be a damn shame if this request got ignored for some of the bizarre reasons given so far against it when there is a strong case that it would benefit BRL, a good case that it would benefit the community and no case at all that it could hurt anyone.