On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 21:07, Jeff Turner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:47:49PM -0500, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > My opinion is you've come across just about as objective as Richard > > Stallman would be in the Microsoft Beta testing program. > > :-> Pretending to be objective is not my strong point. > > > No offense but this is EXACTLY the opposite of what is needed. Way too > > inflamatory, partisan and counter-productive to the target of just > > "explaining to the confused" as to what the differences are. > > My aim was not to give an exhaustive comparison. The O'Reilly and Perens > pages do it much better than I could. I wanted to give an > Apache-flavoured introduction to the debate, by introducing the main > issue (GPL virality) and showing how that conflicted with Apache's > community-orientedness. And then link to the real thing. >
The question is: "How do you want to spend your time?" Possible answers: 1> Fighting an "unwinnable" (defined as the argument having a logical conclusion where one side overwhelmingly wins) religious war with the GNU hordes (hirds? hurds? ;-) ). . . 2> Coding and documenting I'd pick #2. Not scared of the Gnu, but *shrugs* no since in inciting a riot for no reason. Such doesn't do anything for Apache, but does do mounds for the GNU stuff... If you're just bored there are plenty of things for you to do for POI ;-) Anyhow, I DO applaud and appreciate you efforts... -Andy > > I kinda think the link off of the Apache Manual was fine... > > +1 > > --Jeff > > > -Andy > > > > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 16:46, Jeff Turner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As promised, I've written up an "ASL vs. GPL" page, for possible > > > inclusion on jakarta-site2. > ... > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
