Well, I seem to have created a "situation" with HiveMind.

My employers, WebCT, have pointed out that, really, HiveMind should have originated 
officially from
their control; despite the weeks of thought that led up to HiveMind, despite the 
initial work begin
done "off company time", the fact is that by ordinary employment standards, I did not 
have the right
to release HiveMind the way I did.

Fortunately, they are being very good natured about it ... what they want is 
appropriate
recognition. I'm keen to give it to them ... it helps both of us (they are hip to the 
marketing
potential of open source contributions, I'm hip to the marketing potential of directly 
referencing
WebCT and Vista). I'm also looking forward to my future as a contractor, when "down 
time" (between
jobs) is down time (not anyone else's property).

I'm looking for advice on what's appropriate. I'm thinking of something on the front 
page of the
HiveMind site that clearly details the origination of HiveMind within WebCT. Something 
a bit more
substantial than the blurb on the XMLBeans site that points back to BEA, I think.

Any ideas?

--
Howard M. Lewis Ship
Creator, Tapestry: Java Web Components
http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/hivemind/
http://javatapestry.blogspot.com


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