Ah..... I see your point - although anyone who has done any business with Sun Micro might bridle at the thought that the
main purpose of their "free" psuedo open-source java project is to benefit the world in general without a thought to
profit. And let's not forget all those "enterprise" applications out there that run on Java for thousands of dollars per
CPU a year - should they all be free because Java is free? Apache is another story. I personally don't think of
software or technology with enough piety to separate it from my profit motive (ha). I'm quite happy to have folks build
things and then charge for their use - after all, that's what I do for a living. I suspect that if CF were to become
more "free" I would have to charge less and make less because it would be perceived differently. I'm not interested in
giving the gift of CF to the world - there are probably other things more deserving my charity. I'm more interested
early retirement (hehe).
-Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 2:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Message Board
Mark A. Kruger - CFG wrote:
> uh.... what?
Is not the java programming language free? What about the XML and SOAP
parsing stuff from the Apache project. I'm pretty sure that's all free too.
- Rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 1:49 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Message Board
>
> Calvin Ward wrote:
>
> > I don't agree with the need for free anything, especially something
> > someone crafted.
>
> That's an awfully irrational statement coming from a cold fusion
> developer, whose language depends heavily on FREE software.
>
> - Rick
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