For whatever my opinion may or may not be worth, I think well enough should be left alone. EMC2 seems to be moving along just fine without the 'commercial' headaches! It seems to me that EMC2 is being developed by some dedicated hard working people that are more interested in making it right than in making money from it. Maybe some day development can split into a quasi commercial product and an open source product much like the Linux world but I am not sure that day has come yet. - John Guenther 'Ye Olde Pen Maker' Sterling, Virginia
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:58 +0100, Ian W. Wright wrote: > Ok, lots of fine talk from people who are mostly interested > in using EMC2 for commercial purposes but where would this > 'donation' or 'bounty' system leave the amateur who is > struggling to build a system and the knowledge to use it on > a shoestring? Surely this was one of the main reasons EMC2 > was released to the world in the first place.. If a > 'commercial interest' paid a bounty or made a named donation > ( as opposed to an anonymous donation ) for a particular > feature to be developed, would this feature then become > their property - i.e. bought and paid for? Would it > subsequently be incorporated into a normal upgrade release > and, if so, would the 'owner' be able to impose restrictions > on its use ( such as not for making the same widgets as the > 'owner' makes for sale ) or charge for the inclusion of that > feature? At what point would EMC2 become so largely 'owned' > that it would effectively become commercial software and how > would that affect the developers legally vis-a-vis health > and safety? > > It would be a great shame and loss to our superb community > if the development of EMC2 as a freely available resource > hit the buffers because of commercial pressure and because > all the developers started trying to earn themselves a few > dollars by going down the 'commercial' route. Jim Fleig's > epistle should have sounded a warning in pointing out the > demands that are likely to be expected when the software is > 'commissioned' for a particular situation. The current state > where our developers are free to improve the software as and > when the muse takes them has to be the most advantageous > system for our overall community. > > Best wishes, > Ian > ___________________ > Ian W. Wright > Sheffield UK > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
