Im not a lawyer either, and I just want to understand this stuff and help others understand the legal stuff too. Its supposed to be helpful advise, sorry if it seems more like criticism.
But half the point of my rant is that no, opensource is about sharing sourcecode, thats wht it means. My gripe is with people who want some of the nice positive aspects of the phrase opensource to rub off on them without actually opening any source. It upsets me greatly. And personally I stopped betatesting ANT when it was deemed that faults with ANT beta versions should not be discussed publically. That doesnt fit your wider interpretation of what opensource means either. Its ANTs right to do what it likes, you guys deserve sucess, you deserve control over ANT. Thats the point, control, I get upset when people who keep control claim to be doing the opposite. Fine if you want control, just dont pretend otherwise. The only way I could interpret the huge defensiveness about discussing flaws with ant beta, had nothing whatsoever to do with furthering the cause of getting more people to videoblog. It seemed to me that what cahnged btween fireant being an opensource utopian project, and the opensource idea being knocked on the head, was a recognition that it might have some financial value, and that the fireant brand was worth protecting, hence the typical instinctive kneejerk reaction of wanting to silence all criticism. Steve of Elbows --- In [email protected], Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, full disclosure on this... we're not lawyers. We're regular people > trying to make a cool product and a business out of something we > started on our own. We're learning as we go. > Open source is about more than source code. Its about sharing > knowledge and resources too. I think we do way more than our fair > share in terms of education and outreach. I think this is way more > effective than giving away source code. What we want is for more > people to become videobloggers. To begin creating and sharing media. > It is to this end that we are dedicating our energies. > > -Josh > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
