Hello! I have a dream - the best operating system around is free and open source!
Tony Tebby opened up the way into a bright future of SMSQ/E by allowing SMSQ/E to be free and open source and enabling the remaining core operating system programmers to develop SMSQ/E further. Many thanks for that! But this historic opportunity is thrown away and a license is invented that turns almost every freedom that Tony Tebby would have allowed us into prohibitions to fulfill commercial purposes. Not only that, the "license" takes away every important right of an open source developer who wants to contribute his work for free! The fruits of hard work will be lost, abused or sold by third parties for unknown prices. (The only thing left is to see a snapshot of the sources, later on one can only see the non commercial parts of SMSQ/E.) Please consider now, that all major programmers, who are willing and able to write operating system code for Q60 SMSQ/E, are open source and free software developers and cannot work under such conditions. This means that SMSQ/E development is stopped for the last QL platform that is still produced, the Q60! So I kindly ask Wolfgang and the forces in the background: Please, please, turn this nightmare into a dream! Take your chances! Claus
