aidong wrote:
Although he made pymol a commercial software against scientific spirit [snip]...
I'm sorry, but that is so breathtakingly inaccurate that I have to respond. If we can equate freedom to extend published ideas with "scientific spirit" then Warren was a pioneer of the scientific freedom. His scientific software embedded openness and the scientific spirit far more so than the generations of software that came before it. Trying to make a living from exploiting his expertise and selling binaries is completely orthogonal to software freedom. Warren was the first to work in this way in our field, he didn't know if it would work, it was a gamble for which he was brave enough to risk his career.
Paul.
