RE: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-09 Thread Bill Page
On November 9, 2005 12:57 PM Tim Daly wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Bill Page wrote: > > > ... > Mike Dewar wrote: > > > > > I provided copies of the Axiom product to several people on the > > > list so you would have had no problem bootstrapping the first > > >

Re: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Dewar
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:50:51AM -0500, Bill Page wrote: > Do you mean that this original "Axiom product" binary - as distinct > from the commercial binary version - could have been distributed as > part of the original open source distribution? If that is true, it > makes me sad that Tim went to

Re: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-09 Thread root
> > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Bill Page wrote: > > ... > > > Building Axiom from sources only, which was apparently a > > > requirement imposed by restrictive licensing conditions which > > > apparently prevented any of the previously commercial binary > > > versions of Axiom t

RE: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-09 Thread Bill Page
On November 9, 2005 5:40 AM Mike Dewar wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Bill Page wrote: > ... > > Building Axiom from sources only, which was apparently a > > requirement imposed by restrictive licensing conditions which > > apparently prevented any of the previously commercia

RE: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-09 Thread C Y
--- Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On November 8, 2005 4:55 PM C Y wrote: > > > > Personally, I would be happier with a system that can be > > bootstrapped. > > I started writing a long explanation about bootstrapping > and all that, but thanks to the magic of Wikipedia I don't > hav

Re: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Dewar
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:09:23PM -0500, Bill Page wrote: > I am not aware of any of Tim's past sins -- only his present > ones. ;) Building Axiom from sources only, which was apparently > a requirement imposed by restrictive licensing conditions which > apparently prevented any of the previously

RE: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-08 Thread Bill Page
On November 8, 2005 4:55 PM C Y wrote: > > Personally, I would be happier with a system that can be > bootstrapped. I started writing a long explanation about bootstrapping and all that, but thanks to the magic of Wikipedia I don't have to bother, I can just point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

RE: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-08 Thread C Y
--- Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not aware of any of Tim's past sins -- only his present > ones. ;) Building Axiom from sources only, which was apparently > a requirement imposed by restrictive licensing conditions which > apparently prevented any of the previously commercial binary

RE: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-08 Thread Bill Page
On November 7, 2005 10:20 PM Tim Daly wrote: >... > the task at that time was to rewrite the system into pamphlet > files. had i proposed such a massive, pervasive rewrite this > mailing list would have been aflame with opinion. and the > consensus would certainly have been to NOT do a pamphlet > r

Re: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-08 Thread C Y
--- Jay Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > *, > > That's wild enough to include me. I really don't have anything to > contribute, but I thought I should delurk sometime. Hey Jay! :-). Glad to see you on the list. > It's probably largely due to hindsight and seeing how things turned

Re: [Axiom-developer] letting my mud settle

2005-11-07 Thread Jay Belanger
> *, That's wild enough to include me. I really don't have anything to contribute, but I thought I should delurk sometime. > when i first got the code (before it saw the light of day) i spent a > lot of time thinking about my past sins and letting my mud settle. as > a result of that navel gazi