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on 11/12/99 2:25 PM, Chris Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It appears that Jon should be more open to sharing. How could a person do
> harm by having the faq contents? A lesson should be learned from Linux. By
> not allowing the FAQ contents to be available for development is rather
> closed-source.
What you don't realize is that I have gotten a whole bunch of emails already
from people saying that they are going to do something and then don't follow
through on it. I don't have the time to sit and send people the tar ball
every time they ask for it. Sorry.
I consider calling my methods of development and running projects
"closed-source" as being pretty rude considering the fact that I have given
away (to this project) almost every piece of code that I have written over
the last two+ years. Telling me that I should learn a lesson from Linux is
even worse.
What you have no clue of is that it was me who put 98% of the content into
the FAQ in the first place. Obviously I have been pretty good at making
things available.
> It is very difficult to build an application when you cannot see the old
> application or its data. The old application and its data are very useful
> in deducing the requirements, use-cases, and ultimately the design the new
> system.
So, go download a copy of the old application and put some data into it. It
isn't that big of a deal. Copy/paste some emails and you are done.
> Or you could get it yourself by doing:
> wget -r http://java.apache.org/faq/fom-serve/cache/
Yea, that is real closed source, now isn't it!
I'm getting really tired of having my choices questioned by you all. It is a
lot easier to sit back and question other people than it is to actually sit
up here and do actual work.
If you think you can do it better. Come on. Do it. I quit.
cya,
-jon
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