From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,f8c029da202116ff X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-15 08:59:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!area.cu.mi.it!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: <3068d73dfdfecd0236d3599ccad1fc60.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> References: <3CB94312.5040802@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1018861672 16400 198.207.153.205 (Mon Apr 15 17:59:57 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1018861672 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/3068d73dfdfecd0236d3599ccad1fc60.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22559 misc.misc:6326 Date: 2002-04-15T15:59:56+00:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" wrote: > I would submit that this is because the "release it to the public > domain" step was never followed through on. If they had done that > first, instead of planning on doing it last, things might have been > different. Indeed. The open source concept is built on trust, of which there isn't all that much around, and stuff needs to be "irrevocably" open source from the beginning for that trust to be given. I suppose that is one point in favor of the Gnu Public License. xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG