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  3. January 2010

Re: powerEXT - Clarifications from the author

But do you really think licensing is the reason? I just think the majority
of RPG coders aren't interested in it because all of their basic needs were
met up until 8 to 10 years ago.

I would be curious to know how much the GPL v3 language (that forces changes
to be contributed back) actually helps efforts. I would imagine to a large
extent that most give back because they want to, though maybe I am wrong.

Aaron Bartell
aaronbartell.com

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I think I now understand why open source has never taken off in the
IBM i community - we can never get past the arguments about what the
(largely unenforceable) license terms mean and actually get down to
coding and sharing.

If it is all as bad as some seem to think then why have SugarCRM, PHP,
MySQL, Linux, and on and on been able to succeed so well?


Jon Paris



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