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Subject: Re: Programmer's opinions abut "closed source" wanted.

Author: Paul Jacobean Sacral

Date: 02:43:13 12/23/05

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On December 23, 2005 at 05:27:14, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>Sorry, Paul, but you change the topic. I am neither pro closed code nor pro open
>source. What I mean is that a chimp doesnt pretend he's a human being. Please
>come back to that key point. IF Thomas had declared it from the beginning then
>nobody would see a single problem with his changes.

If chimps don't pretend they are humans, it's because of the 1% (only)
difference. For the same reason, Toga 1.0 is stronger than Fruit 2.0 and Toga
1.1 is stronger than Fruit 2.1.

IIRC the release of Toga 0.93 was changed to be entirely correct under the Gnu
public license conditions, and 1.0 and 1.1 were always correct. You may ask who,
and why, still saw a problem nevertheless: The "problem" was T.Gaksch's releases
always were stronger than the just recently before released Fruit versions, they
were based upon. --> Source closed.

A good idea to collect software improvements: Make it open source, see what
others contribute as improvements, then close source and make a lot of $$$
bucks!

Yours truly Paul J. Sacral



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