Hi Dain. I understand your point and its something that was discussed but
unfortunately, this is what Allaire/Macromedia was comfortable with. Its
fairly open so there shouldn't be any issues.
Again, if there any sticking points, lets bring them up to Macromedia and
see what we can do.
Rey...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dain Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: WDDX.org is now OpenWDDX.org
> Rey,
>
> I assure you I'm not trying to explicitly criticize the efforts of
OpenWDDX;
> rather, I had hoped this movement would've been under the GPL, that's all.
> The GPL is something that many have grown to understand -- this just adds
> one more license agreement to decipher and understand, when there's
already
> a sufficiently intuitive one in existence that is the flagship of
> open-source.
>
> Dain Anderson
> Caretaker, CF Comet
> http://www.cfcomet.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rey Bango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: WDDX.org is now OpenWDDX.org
>
>
> > Dain,
> >
> > What do you see that makes it "non-open"? I can always forward your
> comments
> > accordingly.
> >
> > Rey...
> > OpenWddx.org
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dain Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: WDDX.org is now OpenWDDX.org
> >
> >
> > > Gee, with all this talk about "open", one might look at the following
> URL
> > > and begin to question it's openness.
> > >
> > > http://www.openwddx.org/downloads/
> > >
> > >
> > > Dain Anderson
> > > Caretaker, CF Comet
> > > http://www.cfcomet.com/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:33 PM
> > > Subject: WDDX.org is now OpenWDDX.org
> > >
> > >
> > > > Effective today, Macromedia has formally transitioned responsibility
> for
> > > the
> > > > Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX) Web site to a third party. All
> > > > information that has been posted to the WDDX Web site, wddx.org, can
> now
> > > be
> > > > found at http://www.openwddx.org.
> > > >
> > > > WDDX is an XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex
> > data
> > > > between applications, creating what some refer to as 'Web syndicate
> > > > networks' and enabling Web Services. Allaire created WDDX in order
to
> > > solve
> > > > key problems in exchanging data between Web applications. In
> particular,
> > > > Simeon Simeonov, Allaire's chief architect, created WDDX to support
> > > problems
> > > > of distributed computing within ColdFusion. This work was
generalized
> > into
> > > a
> > > > cross-language framework, and resulted in the creation of the WDDX
SDK
> > and
> > > > WDDX.org. Nate Weiss, an independent Web developer, with the support
> of
> > > > Allaire and a number of other third parties, created the WDDX SDK.
> > > >
> > > > Transferring responsibility for this Web site is consistent with our
> > > overall
> > > > goal of supporting this technology within the public domain. As
> creator
> > > of
> > > > the technology, Allaire Corp. was at times perceived as the owner
and
> > > formal
> > > > supporter of the technology, and that WDDX was a proprietary
> technology.
> > > > The establishment of OpenWDDX.org is intended to rekindle enthusiasm
> and
> > > > acceptance of WDDX in the developer community, and confirm its role
as
> > an
> > > > independent and enabling technology.
> > > >
> > > > For more information, and a complete FAQ about the WDDX initiative,
> > please
> > > > visit http://www.openwddx.org.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > -Sam
> > > >
> > > > Samuel Coe
> > > > Sr. Manager, Developer Programs
> > > > Macromedia, Inc.
> > > > 617-219-2133
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
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