Re: Open Source archive (was Panel groups)

I completely agree with your statements scott,
I develop some cools natives macosx apps under gpl, and
you right about they shin it, its completly another community.
But ibm has a little bit enforced that.

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Stephane

Le vendredi, 31 jan 2003, à 18:10 Europe/Zurich, Scott Klement a écrit :

My experience with open source on the iSeries is that iSeries people don't
understand open source, and in fact many of them shun it.

Sure, those professionals who don't shun it are quite happy to use the
open source software, as long as you teach them how to use it on your own
time for free... but give back? no, if the project doesn't do exactly
what they want it to, they just complain about it, and then go buy a
commercial product.

Actually give time to make the project better? actually contribute code,
documentation, etc to the project? This is lost on them. I think it's
mainly because people don't work on the iSeries on their own time for
their own benefit... they do it because someone is paying them. And
people don't want to pay for free software.

By contrast, the people in the BSD and Linux communities are more than
happy to "give something back". This is the ideal community, since the
real techies in the PC world (those who really enjoy programming enough to
do it in their spare time) tend to gravitate towards these platforms.