> > If you were concerned about the future of PalmOS gcc and prc-tools during
> > my absence, rest assured now! I'm very far from the idea of letting John
> > Marshall and Palm take over our free development environment and try to
> > control it.
>
> Just curious.
>
> Doesn't "open source" mean anyone can take it over and continue to
> develop whatever they like in terms of the development of a program?
> And further, doesn't trying to "keep control over the source" stray
> from the idea of "open source"?
Exactly. If I decided to port the 0.6.0 prc-tools to, say, AmigaOS or BeOS
or QNX Neutrino, I'm allowed to do so under the GPL - on condition that I
submit any changes back into the community. The term "open source" does
cover quite a broad group of related ideas, but prc-tools are under GPL
and thus no one is really supposed to be 'the one true prc-tools'.
Also, not all platforms using the GCC development environment follow the
"Zen of UNIX" so does that mean Michael Sokolov's prc-tools can't be used
on those systems? That doesn't seem like a good deal, to be honest...
particularly since I've used previous ports of prc-tools on non-UNIX OSs
without any problem.
John
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John Chandler / Software Developer / New Information Paradigms Ltd
[ Linux in the office, AmigaOS in the home, PalmOS in the pocket ]
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