Paul Hammant wrote: > > Berin : Do you want me to email you the subject of this thread? If yes, just > since Saturday?
Please. Since Saturday should be fine. > > --- > > > >GPL is completely insane for toolkits, services and APIs. Its only > > patronised by people that are > > >new to the "cause" of open source, or those too proud to admin they have > > made the wrong choice of > > >open source license (the second half of that is paraphrasing your comments > > Peter (entirely valid) > > >during the spat with the JBoss people late last year). > > > > You have to realize that when the GPL was born there was a very good reason > > for making the choices it made. I agree 100% with those decisions at that > > time. GPL serves the users at the expense of developers. In current times > > there is still some reasons to use GPL. Mainly if a company does not want > > to release code only to have market-savy competitiors repackage and resell > > it. > > That's a good point - release as GPL to open it, but stifle commercial > competitors use. A spolier > of sorts. > > > The other reason a lot of new comers use GPL is because of advertising > > (they believe GPL==opensource) and they don't really understand > > implications and actually believe some of the rhetoric spouted by 'anarhy r > > us' type peeps. > > That's what I meant by "new to the cause". You put it better though. > > [ Avalon == ApacheOS (phase 1) ] > > > It is definetly something I have played with as an idea. One of the main > > reasons I ended up getting involved with Ant was to play with idea of an > > ant init system (first process in *nix systems) and also to rebuild my > > cron/job/at server. I am also involved with Isolate JSR (basically fork for > > java) which should be a step in right direction. > > Can we go down the gap route? i.e. where does Avalon on top of J2SE on top > of host OS (or BIOS or > other) not fill the requisites for OS definition. > > Incidentally, Peter, you're spot on for pushing Ant down the Avalon road (as > long as it remains > multimodal). > > Regards, > > - Paul H > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
