Re: IPL as a burden

[Gregor Hoffleit]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:17:41AM -0800, Frank LaMonica wrote:

> I like the terminology you used: "source included software (SIS)".  SIS
> would be much better than a closed source, proprietary alternative, but I
> don't see any incentive for open source programmers to contribute to such a
> program.  If a company went out of business or ceased to produce the
> application, SIS would at least provide an option to people so they could
> recover their investment in data which was created by the application.  

Hmm, too bad www.sis.com is already sold... but www.sisi.org is still free
for the Source Included Software Initiative... Any volunteers ? ;-)

    Gregor