Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-22 Thread bern...@bernardhulsman.nl
Domas Mituzas wrote: Hi Bernard, I think you should go entirely closed-source, and close yourself up in a bunker without internet. I just thought you may want to hear another opinion. Domas Domas, this will come to a different stage. What happened to me was abuse of my positive trust. I

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-21 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi Bernard, I think you should go entirely closed-source, and close yourself up in a bunker without internet. I just thought you may want to hear another opinion. Domas ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-21 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! We, as members of the open source community, would do well to wish him luck. Every one of us reflects the community, and snarky remarks make the community look childish. I would have preferred it become open source; Not because I plan to use it but because I want the community to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-21 Thread Madison Kelly
Domas Mituzas wrote: Hi! We, as members of the open source community, would do well to wish him luck. Every one of us reflects the community, and snarky remarks make the community look childish. I would have preferred it become open source; Not because I plan to use it but because I

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-21 Thread John Meyer
On 1/21/2010 3:03 PM, Madison Kelly wrote: Domas Mituzas wrote: Hi! We, as members of the open source community, would do well to wish him luck. Every one of us reflects the community, and snarky remarks make the community look childish. I would have preferred it become open source; Not

[Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-20 Thread bern...@bernardhulsman.nl
Thank you for all your responce on my previous thread. There were very valuable to me. Most of all I do like you all respected my conditions. There was even a responce to warn me I should not make my propriety software Open Source because then I could not earn any money from my extension. That

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-20 Thread Madison Kelly
bern...@bernardhulsman.nl wrote: Thank you for all your responce on my previous thread. There were very valuable to me. Most of all I do like you all respected my conditions. There was even a responce to warn me I should not make my propriety software Open Source because then I could not

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-20 Thread Q
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 So its boils down to me : *Is a Open Source license solid, reliable. Yes *Do I really get the credits. You will always own the copyright of your work unless you hand it over. Offering your code under an Open Source license is not giving that

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Please convince me to make my software open source (2)

2010-01-20 Thread Platonides
Bernard wrote: Or a competitor can create the same kind of SAAS solution but more cheap because I have the costs, and the competitor the profit. If the competitor doesn't innovate, he will be just copying your version, unable to provide the new features the client wants. Credits If I make