On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Miguel Arroz wrote:
When you say "I know many developpers that wil be back on the WO side, if Apple opensource WO, but they are currently using uggly technology, just for eating."
I think they just don't know any better. Not all open source projects are born equal. There are a lot of choices out there, and a number of them are very high-quality (e.g. I have no reason to think that Cayenne is in any way inferior to EOF at this point).
Open-source originally was a good ideia for some kind of projects,
Was? It is still the best idea for the 90% of the ubiquitous stuff. Even in the WO world, the open source components make up a significant chunk of the stack: OS (sometimes), Tomcat (sometimes), Wonder, WOLips, Ant, pdf frameworks, AJAX frameworks, and dozens of others.
but it has a lot of drawbacks, specially when you look at the quality of the products, because a lof of people work on it and because many times there's not a roadmap for the product.
Is there a roadmap for WO? Again, not all projects are created equal. Just like with commercial software, you have to apply your intelligence to make the right choice.
As you see I haven't argued for or against open sourcing WO, but let's be reasonable and not generalize too much.
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