I working out the licensing with my lawyer.
Ole, if you spent half the time you spend on writing these long rants in
writing some documentation on the TM architecture, you could join the profit
sharing in the documentation.
What we are doing is getting *you* some pay as you write some doco.
"write doco, get paid" is the name of the program.
marc
|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ole Husgaard
|Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 12:06 AM
|To: JBoss-Dev
|Subject: Re: [jBoss-Dev] CVS update:
|newsite/documentation/compressedJBoss-Manual-HTML.zip
|
|
|Hi,
|
|Tom Cook wrote:
|> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Juha-P Lindfors wrote:
|> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ole Husgaard wrote:
|> > > Really hope I am misunderstanding
|> > > something here.
|> >
|> > You are. The documentation in all of its forms is available in the
|> > CVS. You're free to co and build it. The CVS includes all parts of the
|> > documentation.
|>
|> So why no bundled HTML download?
|
|I think that this may be a bit stupid:
|When the zipped docs are not available,
|what are people that want HTML docs to
|be available locally going to do?
|They simply use a recursive web
|mirroring tool, generating about three
|times as much traffic as downloading a
|zip would.
|With GNU wget, mirroring the docs from
|the jboss site is a one-line command.
|That is a lot easier than checking out
|from CVS, if you are not a programmer.
|
|The question still remains: Is the
|documentation free (as in freedom)?
|And if the documentation is not free,
|who owns it?
|
|
|In more general terms, I think it is
|worth thinking about this question:
|
|How much do we want to hinder access
|to (and use of) JBoss in order to
|avoid competing with commercial
|subprojects?
|
|For example, if a commercial entity
|starts selling JBoss binaries, should
|we stop distributing JBoss binaries?
|
|What would the impact be, if we start
|telling potential users that they have
|to either pay for a binary, or learn
|how to check out from CVS and compile
|Java code?
|
|
|Tricky questions that IMHO deserve
|serious consideration and public
|discussion.
|
|But it seems to me that the decision
|of forbidding the distribution of
|a zipped HTML manual was made behind
|closed doors. I saw no announcement
|of such a decision, only a CVS removal
|of the zip file.
|
|
|Best Regards,
|
|Ole Husgaard.
|
