On 19 May 2002, at 22:09, Claus Graf wrote: > Hello! > > I have a dream - the best operating system around is > free and open source!
Well, right now it isn't. > Tony Tebby opened up the way into a bright future of > SMSQ/E by allowing SMSQ/E to be free and open source and > enabling the remaining core operating system programmers > to develop SMSQ/E further. Many thanks for that! > > But this historic opportunity is thrown away and a > license is invented that turns almost every freedom that > Tony Tebby would have allowed us into prohibitions to > fulfill commercial purposes. I don't see it that way. The licence does allow you the freedom to make changes. Alright, so only the resellers may sell the binary code. So what? > Not only that, the "license" takes away every important right > of an open source developer who wants to contribute his work for > free! The fruits of hard work will be lost, abused or sold by > third parties for unknown prices. Oh sure, I can see it now: code "abusers" charinbg 1000s of euros and the poor unsuspecting users flocking in wiht their hard earned cash. Please people, get real. > (The only thing left is to see a snapshot of the sources, > later on one can only see the non commercial parts of SMSQ/E.) > > Please consider now, that all major programmers, who are > willing and able to write operating system code for Q60 SMSQ/E, > are open source and free software developers and cannot work > under such conditions. I can. But then, true, I'm not a major programmer. > This means that SMSQ/E development is > stopped for the last QL platform that is still produced, the Q60! > > So I kindly ask Wolfgang and the forces in the background: Cue in the dramatic music. May the "forces in the backgroud" be with you. You all know of course, that I am just a front for a sinister fiend mafia, bent on destroying the Ql world (at least) and make a fortune when doing so. I'm sorry Claus, just venting my anger at you... Wolfgang ----------------- www.wlenerz.com
