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Re: open source IBM i. was Re: From RGP to ¿Java ?

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Schmidt, Mihael
<Mihael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And what would YOU contribute to the "open i" project?

What would the community contribute to it? Most people programming on the "i" cannot even use its simplest OS API
let alone write some decent API themselves or make an existing one better.

I think it is a variation on the build it and they will come theme.
Open source the OS and people who like to write OS code will learn
about IBM i, be intrigued by it and start to work on the code. I
think the important thing is not to disallow people from making their
contributions closed source. Allow programmers to profit from their
work.

-Steve

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