> Could you prepare the draft text to post to [4]? Then we can polish and post > it.
Hi I prepared the text to post to the Nanopore feature request page. I considered simple text to be read by people easily. Could you review it? I am going to post it this week if there are no objections. ### Subject: ONT software to be more open Body: The current situation for the ONT software with limited distribution targets, limited CPU architectures and manual downloading challenges us for the usage. Therefore we would like to see the ONT software to be more open. We are maintaining Debian, RPM and Bioconda Medical packages. ONT might have a concern to be more open. The good news is we can see MongoDB [1] and Redis [2] cases for their license. It's great to see ONT already distributed the source of the EPI2ME Command Line Agent on the ONT download page. There are ONT's benefits from our experiences and [1][2], that are partly duplicated with the ones of another feature request [3]. * Ease of install * Better hardware (GPU, CPU) compatibility, accelerating the user-driven tests. * Unlimited distribution targets and CPU architectures by both ONT and users. * A stronger community * A robust and secure software We think there are the following possible ways for ONT software to be more open. * Having ONT's own package repository or redistributable ONT binaries for distributions (Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS/Fedora). Docker is a good example of their own package repository. * Partly Open Sourcing. The non-critical or machine related layer parts of the implementation could be open sourced. * Fully Open Sourcing with a protected license. ([1], [2]) If ONT takes actions to be more open, we appreciate it. [1] MongoDB: https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license/faq [2] Redis: https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-labs-modules-license-changes/ [3] Official Docker images for Nanopore software: https://features.nanoporetech.com/ideas/ALGS-I-20 ### -- Jun | He - His - Him
