David Johnson wrote: > I was not judging any type of application. Instead I was prognosticating from > my own particular perspective. No offense was intended and I hope you don't > take it as such. I do foresee a need for web services and other forms of > centralized processing. But I still doubt that they will become the dominant > mode of application computing.
We see eye to eye on that; I don't think it'll be the norm for a long time, if ever. Still, for lots of people, GPL software isn't the norm either, and still we spend time trying to hammer down a good license. Likewise, even if the group of applications that uses strict fat server/thin client type of deployment is minute, these applications can (and do, from my perspective) serve an interesting niche; to make it interesting/feasable for people to release such applications this too deserves a good license. > I get the impression that there are one or two people out there (not you) who > are in a state of urgency over this issue because they see an immanent return > of the dumb/thin client. I don't like decisions to be made in panic mode, so > I was trying to explain in my own not-to-brilliant way why I didn't think > it's going to happen. OK, I see. Two discussions are crossing over into each other here. I don't think that the bulk of applications is going to move to ASP-type software. So on this we agree. Even so, as said, an interesting portion _will_ (yes, like mine), and we need to think about this. Emile -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
