Keith Hodges wrote: >> so I'm laughing when people suggest that we are predators. >> >> > I am still counting your contributions back to the packages which you > are using, which are public domain, and have public repositories... > > answer zero > > Its not even a technical issue, you have chosen a philosophically predatory stance from the outset.
"We will make our own image, without any concern for giving back to those who made it possible" The number of times I have heard, we are changing this that or the other, and if you want the improvement "you can port it if you want to", completely illustrates my point. Those who made the contributions that you are using probably expected that any improvements to their efforts would be fed back to them in a form that they could make use of. It is the main reason for companies to make their code open source, because they anticipate some reciprocation from those who benefit, and thus the benefit is mutual, and might offset the considerable cost of development. And in case you are wondering, the public repository for the community to work towards improving SUnit, ( squeaksource/Testing ) does include #assert:equals: Keith _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
