Reduz, Juan Linietsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [...] Yes, the author is free to do whathever he wants, and he owns > his work, but that doesnt mean we cant criticize his behavior. Here you're right. You can criticize him all you like. > To which i'd really like to tell him, license is _very_ important. We > write software with the hopes that will benefit US and OTHERS, also we > love to share our code with others. People has used code from my > programs, and I have used the code from other people, and we avovoid a > huge duplicated effort for each thing we do, while all benefiting. > Many of us deffent this ideal and encourage it. And here I think you're wrong. I know that I write software mostly because it's fun, and I'm pretty sure you do to. When I write software, I often like to start mostly from scratch: why? because you learn alot. Why do you think there are alot of very similar apps for linux? Coding is fun, even more fun from scratch. So, I don't think that 'avoiding a huge duplicated effort' is really a shared goal here. And yes, license is important, but I think it's more important to have more programmers targeting linux for their hobby applications. We're short on developers on pretty much every project, having a rebirth clone available is a small price to pay for having another developer who could be contributing elsewhere. So, I wouldn't criticize so much. I'm on his side against open source bigotry. One last thought, I bet his 'kickass app' will still include the 303 emulation and the drum machines, so you need not worry so much about losing all those precious lines of source code. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
