Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
I'm putting together some notes for an article at revJournal.com on
open source projects done with Rev.
If you're working on complete applications or even just components for
the Rev community, let's use the pages at revJournal.com to help raise
the visibility of your efforts.
Please reply off-list to me at: ambassador at fourthworld.com
Kindly include a brief description of your project, URL to its home
page, and please note which FOSS license the project uses.
Pardon my goofiness, but as far as In understand an Open Source project
is not possble using RunRev because RunRev is itself proprietary.
I ran up against this several years ago when I offered 2 programs of mine to
Ubuntu, who, to put it nicely, got "all hoity-toity" because the source code
was not completely open.
True, some people like to argue. But very few of those people express
any problem at all with open source projects that run on OS X and
Windows, both of which are proprietary and necessary for the operation
of software that runs on them.
The same is true of microchip instruction sets, on which even GNU Linux
is dependent. The inner workings of the Intel architecture are
closely-held and strongly-defended "proprietary information", yet no one
on the GNU projects seems to have any problem with that.
If using microchip and OS interfaces are okay, wouldn't that principle
apply equally to using APIs from any closed-source system, like Rev?
To draw a line at some point in the low- to high-level hierarchy of
computing systems on which all software runs, claiming that anything
above the line is "bad" but below the line is "good", seems, to use a
polite term, arbitrary.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com
revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv
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