Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:42:21 12/23/05
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On December 23, 2005 at 06:21:54, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote: >On December 23, 2005 at 06:13:13, Uri Blass wrote: > >>one idea in Toga is used in fruit but Fabien could probably use it even without >>Toga. > >Of course you are right, but wasn't it urgently required to present a different >view in contrast to the ugly "black-white" views where Gaksch was the evil and >Letouzey was the saint? > >What do you think about closed source and about going commercial after improving >a software project being open source for a limited time? Imagine you'd had >contributed to such an open source project. What do you think? Is it perfectly >ok, is it 100% honest beyond all doubt? Is the one who uses open source >complaint to the licence, the only evil guy, and is the one who benefits from >the open source period and has now gone commercial, the perfectly good guy with >the clean record? > >Be realistic please. If you are capable and not someone who lives in a phantasy >world... > >Yours truly Paul J. Sacral I think that fabien did not plan to start with open source and continue with closed source. He simply did not expect fruit to be so strong relative to the commercial programs and he understood that it is bad to continue with open source program because some clones may win an important competition. I also see nothing dishonest with deciding to close the source of fruit. Uri
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