http://kodingen.com/

?? this seems more along the lines.

-Thadeus





On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:29 PM, mikech <[email protected]> wrote:
> To quote a saying:
> Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
>
> On Feb 16, 6:48 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>> sorry was a joke and I did not mean it in a negative ways. I meant to
>> indicate that if before we were taking inspirations from them now thay
>> are taking inspirations from us. I think that is a nice project and
>> perhaps we can learn from it too.
>>
>> On Feb 16, 3:25 am, pistacchio <[email protected]> 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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