On 12-Sep-00 at 06:16, Alexander Mai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 06:03:48AM -0400, Rick Scott wrote:
> > On 12-Sep-00 at 05:51, st002279 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:21:54AM +0200, Danny Backx wrote:
> > > > > Did I miss something special?
> > > > > What exactly are the issues you're talking about?
> > > >
> > > > License issues. RMS mostly beats on the platform dependency in the
> > > > license (OpenMotif can only be used on open source operating
> > > > systems).
> > >
> > > Ok, that are more or less known issues.
> > > One shouldn't even spend too much time to get a license which just
> > > allows patches. Fight for a real usable license or put energy in
> > > LessTif only ;-)
> >
> > Trying to get a good license on OM _is_ putting energy into LessTif. If
> > they can get a good license, LessTif's goals will be pretty much met.
>
> I meant one shouldn't focus on a license that just somehow allows common
> usage of small patches, but not making OM opensource.
>
> > If we totally ignore it, nothing will change. The squeeky wheel gets the
> > grease, and all that.....
>
> I'm not sure this holds if dealing with companies like IBM ...
> (being an OS/2 user and having experience with trying to get them
> done something without paying for)
Okay IBM is a good example. They are so big that you can't treat them as a
single entity. The dealings I have had with them have been very positive. Of
course this has been dealing with openDX only. When they first released the
source for that they held the source _very_ close to them. Very little of the
proposed fixes were getting in, and what did get in was not getting there very
quickly. After only a few short days of complaining, followed by a couple of
days of discussion, by only a couple of us, they opened things up considerably,
and things took off very quickly from there. The big difference between the
openDX case and OM, is that OM has a whole lot of "big boys" with there finger
in the pot. OM has expressed an interest in getting to a more open license and
Sun, HP, and IBM at least have made some pretty big steps in the open source
direction. I would really like to hear what is clogging the works in this
case.....
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> Alexander Mai
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