Re: GWindows and a future home for it

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Or is it pastel unicorns and gumdrops with flying pixies sprinkling gold 
dust all over everything. :-) If all it is is a "request", one would 
think that at least one customer might have said "No" and put the whole 
suite of things up on a website somewhere. As far as I know, the only 
stuff that is generally available is the stuff that ACT chooses to 
release publically whenever they choose to release it. Have they put out 
any of their cross-targeted compilers or other spiffy stuff, or are they 
just putting out the general things that are older and no longer 
generate serious revenue?

Mind you, I don't object. Its their software and they have every right 
to put whatever restrictions on it they like. ACT needs to make a profit 
and its pretty hard to sell something to someone if they can get the 
same thing free. "Open Source" in its more zealous form is not what is 
happening here. ACT is giving away older products that can no longer be 
milked for large volumes of cash with the hope of expanding their market 
share. Theres nothing wrong with that - it just means that software is 
intellectual property that costs money to develop and it has economic value.

MDC

Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> 
> Ah, yes, the request, sorry, it's not a proprietary license, it's a 
> request. All is well in open source dreamland. (Pink hearts floating 
> around.) But wait, you need a request, so open source licensing doesn't 
> work, does it? Ah, bugger!
> 

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