05-12-2023, 08:07 PM
QB64 programs are as able to pass for "real" programs only so far as the person writing the program passes for a "real" programmer. Here we have a Turing complete language with all the modern powers that people use and misuse, understand and misunderstand, leading to the content you see people posting today. There is nothing inherent to the language itself that prevents one of its executables from being sold for money. Several of our members who have not spoken up have been in this situation before. Whether or not they wrote a good program is between they and their client.
I think a more fruitful question would be "has anyone here made money while using QB64?", which is a resounding yes.
Or how about a year ago when the big announcement came that QB64 ITSELF was to be commercialized, whatever that meant? Nobody batted an eye when that first happened, well, maybe some of us batted an eye. Point is, this language and "commercialism" are not entirely uncoupled. This doesn't mean anyone has had an actual good idea of how to make this work for them, but the potential is sitting right there nonetheless.
Don't hate the game, hate the players.
I think a more fruitful question would be "has anyone here made money while using QB64?", which is a resounding yes.
Or how about a year ago when the big announcement came that QB64 ITSELF was to be commercialized, whatever that meant? Nobody batted an eye when that first happened, well, maybe some of us batted an eye. Point is, this language and "commercialism" are not entirely uncoupled. This doesn't mean anyone has had an actual good idea of how to make this work for them, but the potential is sitting right there nonetheless.
Don't hate the game, hate the players.