Mark Rauterkus : It was asked if I'm mainly interested in the license
issues -- and I say yes. I'm not a programmer. I'm not a lawyer. But
I'm in dire search for an open and free tool so as to better the world,
so to speak. I am interested in doing some easy programming, say in
x-talk stuff. But, I'm also interested in making this a patform that is
"safe" -- worthy of a life-work mission.
Alain: You have just summed up my situation as well.
Mark Rauterkus : Doing XML, HTML, even SQL is safe --- but it isn't
whiz-bang enough for the masses and the youth and the people-people of
the world. OpenCard might be the ideal tool. But, it needs an ideal
license too.
Alain: Agreed.
Mark Rauterkus : I'm not going to get eye-deep in a proprietary tool
and run the risk of: seeing that mission-critical vendor crash-and-burn
(leaving me SOL), nor, do I want to force all my friends and peers to
buy that proprietary tool to help me advance our knowledge base
endeavor. I don't want to be a sales rep for anyone else.
Alain: Agreed.
Mark Rauterkus : And, FWIW, I think that there were many people on the
Mozilla-License list who were NOT ever going to crack into the source
code with Mozilla, but who were interested in OPEN advances from
Netscape and betterment of the net experience. So, should OpenCard
license list fire-up, I think you'd get some other Free & Open
advocates there to contribute their $.03 of insight.
Alain: It shall be done.
Welcome aboard, Mark.
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