The LiveCode software is open-source and plenty of value-added interactions occur within its greater community. Individuals, teachers, universities, business people, professional programmers, hobbyist and students help one another.
The LiveCode (community) is global. Some friends are in Pittsburgh. Others are in Toronto, Los Angeles, New York and abroad. Most of the discussions and documentation is in English, but the software is now able to handle all sorts of different languages.
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Peter reported in May 2016[]
Approximately 75% of LiveCode users are using the open source edition and do not have an active subscription.
Without counting bug reporting [1], approximately 98% of the changes to the LiveCode engine and IDE are made by the core dev team, and most of this work is funded by subscriptions. Almost all of those changes go directly into the open source edition.
Some of our open source edition users are very diligent about carefully testing LiveCode and filing extremely high-quality bug reports.
