On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:50:54PM -0800, Edward Bernard wrote: > I'm surprised there were no comments on this. I'm wondering how such a > venture could effect our beloved software.
<$.02> I was waiting to see what more active EMC2-ers think, but here's a comment, FWIW. It seems to be a vote of confidence in EMC2 being a robust product with a commercial level of performance. When investors are willing to put their money (or at least money they have to account for) into members of our community going commercial in deploying EMC2, then they have presumably taken some qualified advice on the merits of the product, and the current level of development. If, in addition to our existing hardware suppliers, there were medium-scale commercial integrators or retrofitters, then yes, I can't help feeling that might bias development toward more commercial features, or even imitation of commercial products. If the worst came to the worst, and minor incompatibilities arose, then it's not hard to have a build option or two. But the interchangeable GUIs, and loadable modules, not to mention HAL, make EMC2 admirably suited to pleasing many and varied users, without interference. But it is our active developers who make or break the viability of EMC2. A successful venture might be able to contribute to that, to the benefit of all? </$.02> Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
