Everything Chuck says is true. tb
On Jul 5, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: > On Jul 5, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Ramsey Gurley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was there Hugi and I think I missed something (^_^) >> >> I though the discussion was about forking Wonder, which seemed a little odd >> to me considering we have github nowadays. Anyone can fork it and if you >> attract a following, so be it. >> >> If we are discussing a WO fork... I wonder, has anyone ever actually asked >> Apple if they are willing to open source the WO 5.4.3 release? > > Yes. They will not. > > >> The Java people made enough noise to get Apple's JDK source released to >> Oracle for OpenJDK. We aren't as large as they are, but I would argue that >> we are more important to Apple's operations. > > I doubt that. > > >> Certainly Apple would see a lot of value in having a healthy community of WO >> devs to pluck. > > I think we have pretty much been fully plucked. > > >> Legal issues aside, it would be much easier to simply get Apple's blessing. >> They have gobs of money. It isn't like they can't afford to throw us a >> bone. There should at least be a petition to ask them formally if that >> hasn't already been done. > > Wasting your time, IMO. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
