Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:27:47 12/23/05
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On December 23, 2005 at 05:43:13, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote: >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 If your target is to be number 1 then I think that it is better to always have your source close. I do not believe that fabien makes a lot of money and it is harder to be the best in that way because opponents can also learn from the open source. Uri
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