Hi Nathan, I can't speak for the Church, so you'll have to ask the proper person within the Church about it. I can speculate, but I rather not because I don't have access to all information. The only things I know are what you stated yourself already ;)
Would I like to see some open source development? You bet! Would I support the church in it? Most certainly. Would it be easy to do for the church? I don't know. Would it be worth it? For me most definitely! For the church? Again I would have to say I don't know. It is easy to say yes, but as with everything it takes resources and I cannot make any determination on what the Church will do unless they tell us. I know that I would like to know how many fellow LDS developers are out there and what we could do to help the Church in any way possible. Wouldn't you? ;) Kind regards, ---- Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.manorrock.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:39 PM > To: LDS Open Source Software > Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Re: MLS Bugs and Discussions > > Ah, well that clears things up. > > Sounds like the only way that app will actually get worked on > (in it's current closed-source, closed-access form) is if the > church pours some development resources into it. > > Just out of curiosity, is there a concious reason why the > church restricts access to the program and it's source, or is > that just a historical byproduct? I mean, it's obvious that > the church can't give access to the data these programs use > since the data iteself is confidential, but what does it have > to gain by restricting access to the program itself? It > seems like the church would naturally be a big open-source > proponent, as it's not selling its software (as far as I > know) anyway. > > ~ Nathan _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
