Guys would it not be cool for each week we pick a different language for the pharo list? I would really like to brush up on my French....and we are very diverse in our group. I think this would have two benefits. 1) we would talk less and write more code 2) we would permanently have our tounge inserted in our cheek.
;-) cheers mike On Tuesday, July 7, 2009, Miguel Cobá <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Keith Hodges<[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > This is a priori discarded because of the MIT license. > If you don't want this kind of behavior, the GPL/LGPL licenses exists for this > very exact situation. With MIT you can't force retributions back. > > >> >> 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. >> > > I don't think so. And when they do so, the choose other license. Take > the Java case. It is not MIT, but GPL. This is so that MS, IBM and other can't > run away with the code with giving back. Again, the license establish the > rights and obligations of the receiving party. > > >> And in case you are wondering, the public repository for the community >> to work towards improving SUnit, >> ( squeaksource/Testing ) does include >> >> #assert:equals: >> >> Keith >> > > Miguel Cobá > >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
