To quote a saying: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. On Feb 16, 6:48 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > sorry was a joke and I did not mean it in a negative ways. I meant to > indicate that if before we were taking inspirations from them now thay > are taking inspirations from us. I think that is a nice project and > perhaps we can learn from it too. > > On Feb 16, 3:25 am, pistacchio <pistacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > hi massimo, > > i really appreciate your work on web2py. the product is excellent, > > i've just launched my first site using it and other two are on the > > work. i like the new documentation (how it's shaping up) and the way > > you "rule" the community around web2py prove that your way is right. i > > mean, you do a lot of work and coordinate inputs. > > > one thing i really don't understand is your approach to the opensource > > philosophy. i already pointed it out weeks ago about the non free, pdf > > documentation that is something really sick in a opensource > > environment. fortunately i was not the only one thinking this way and, > > in the end, the online book is now there and shining. > > > now, i think this "copying us" is utterly out of place. as you stated > > somewhere, your sources of inspiration were initially django and > > rails. are you copying them? did you make the idea of "web framework" > > by yourself? were you the first one to come out with the mvc pattern? > > i don't think so, and this is perfect. > > > the opensource community, seen as a whole, not as a series of rival > > smaller communities that gather around isolated projects, drains its > > power from the openness of the ideas, from making them circulate and > > the word "copy", with the negative connotation of "plagiarize" hidden > > within it, has nothing to do with this. > > the guy may or may be not been inspired by web2py, but if he was, it > > is a good thing that web2py did something so valid that other people > > want to take inspiration from it. if he ends up writing a piece of > > software that is better than the current web2py's online editor, we > > can replace it with the new, better one and the circle will be > > completed as opening an idea would lead to end up with a better > > product. that's the whole point of opensource. > > > On Feb 16, 5:57 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > >http://haineault.com/blog/125/ > > > > P.S. Of course we have 3 years of head start and the web2py > > > architecture was designed for this, theirs isn't.
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