I agree with you Marc. OCF could catapult the smartcard awareness of developers because it allows you to use developed application run at any platform. But I guess the bottom line is most of the card and reader manufacturers are just too tight to share information about their latest R&D to support the OCF.
So take a look at most of the new releases of the smart cards and readers, they all require you to purchase SDK without which you may not use or integrate the components of the OCF. Unwittingly, they push away prospective developers out of the picture and thus begin to restrict the free flow of information required for "open development." So my personal plea to manufacturers, is that to share the information. Afterall, where else would we use our developed applications except to your products. regards, Harley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 5:52 AM Subject: Re: [OCF] Motion to immediately close and dissolve the OpenCard > Important announcement from the OpenCard Consortium Board. > At the last Board meeting of the OpenCard Consortium the following motion was tabled: > "A motion was tabled to immediately close and dissolve the OpenCard Consortium. Lack >of support, commitment and interest from members drive us to close the consortium." Is nobody else here worried by this?! I'm shocked at the lack of response. I think OCF/OCC is important, and that card vendors should be supporting it more, not giving up. IBM, Gemplus, Dalsemi and others have invested a lot of development and support time into OCF. What would we all use if Java host application development with OCF started to crumble? I'm interested to know. Cheers --- > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email ! to ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! containing the word ! unsubscribe ! in the body. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --- > Visit the OpenCard web site at http://www.opencard.org/ for more > information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents. > This list is being archived at http://www.opencard.org/archive/opencard/ ! To unsubscribe from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list send an email ! to ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! containing the word ! unsubscribe ! in the body.
