Hmm... If I though someone was plagurizing my idea I would say it. But I think copy is the best term you could use here. I don't know of a better way to say it. Copy is an ok thing to say, it's just the media has turned it into a bad thing. My two cents. --- Best Regards, Jason Brower On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 01:25 -0800, pistacchio wrote: > hi massimo, > i really appreciate your work on web2py. the product is excellent, > i've just launched my first site using it and other two are on the > work. i like the new documentation (how it's shaping up) and the way > you "rule" the community around web2py prove that your way is right. i > mean, you do a lot of work and coordinate inputs. > > one thing i really don't understand is your approach to the opensource > philosophy. i already pointed it out weeks ago about the non free, pdf > documentation that is something really sick in a opensource > environment. fortunately i was not the only one thinking this way and, > in the end, the online book is now there and shining. > > now, i think this "copying us" is utterly out of place. as you stated > somewhere, your sources of inspiration were initially django and > rails. are you copying them? did you make the idea of "web framework" > by yourself? were you the first one to come out with the mvc pattern? > i don't think so, and this is perfect. > > the opensource community, seen as a whole, not as a series of rival > smaller communities that gather around isolated projects, drains its > power from the openness of the ideas, from making them circulate and > the word "copy", with the negative connotation of "plagiarize" hidden > within it, has nothing to do with this. > the guy may or may be not been inspired by web2py, but if he was, it > is a good thing that web2py did something so valid that other people > want to take inspiration from it. if he ends up writing a piece of > software that is better than the current web2py's online editor, we > can replace it with the new, better one and the circle will be > completed as opening an idea would lead to end up with a better > product. that's the whole point of opensource. > > On Feb 16, 5:57 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://haineault.com/blog/125/ > > > > P.S. Of course we have 3 years of head start and the web2py > > architecture was designed for this, theirs isn't. >
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