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The concrete implementation of it is contained as open source (not free, but as in "you can look at the source and change it") in a commercial offering, which w
by moonlighter 13y ago
The concrete implementation of it is contained as open source (not free, but as in "you can look at the source and change it") in a commercial offering, which was the 'normal' back in these days. Yes, it is great that it is made freely available and is backed by an open source organization, no doubt. However, given the amount of time in-between, on a fundamental technical level though it seems slow progress at best.
- sanderjd 13y agoI guess my rebuttal is very schoolyard...so what? I don't really understand the goal of meta-discussions about the speed of progress or lack thereof. This project seems potentially useful in the here and now, which is where we are living. I didn't mean to imply judgment of the licensing of your software - I think everyone should license whatever they make however they wish - a fully free version of anything is simply more useful to me personally, as someone who isn't a deep-pocketed business, and who enjoys reading code.
- moonlighter 13y agoI'm in full agreement with you and yes, it's a silly discussion. I guess I just wanted to point out that the idea behind it isn't all that original and actually pretty old, it's just that it's now made widely accessible, which IS great. Maybe I should've just kept the whole thing to myself ;)