I invite the discussion -- especially as someone who is about to put a lot of time, effort, and years of skill into creating a kick-ass themeing engine.... then to give it away for free?? And as someone who runs her own business full-time, relying on my client base of income (ie: not someone who's working for a large company who pays me a salary, and then wants to release my work as GPL -- which is how most of Drupal is getting built).
Mostly people will use SIAB as a way to get out of hiring a designer / developer, not as a way TO hire a desiger / developer, and share their results with the world (again, as Drupal works) ........... j Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jensimmons.com http://milkweedmediadesign.com 917-455-0022 skype: jensimmons On Nov 16, 2007, at 6:19 pm, Enric wrote: > This may start a whole discussion back and forth. But, I find a > problem with the philosophy and idea behind fully GPL and free > software. As Richard Stallman posits freedom, it's the freedom of > anyone to use software without restriction or barriers. The > contradiction I find is that is that is purely accomplished by > compelling those that create software to release all the code. So > there is a contradiction in the word "freedom" in that it is taking > away freedom of choice from those that create the work. I see the > best result is a wide inclusion of those producing open source and > mixed open and closed source products. That way a wide range of > products and perspectives produce a rich, valuable source of software. > > -- Enric [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
