RE: Showcase for open & free software (Was: Busy day for announcements)

Is NotePad++ considered open source, or just freeware?


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On Friday, July 11, 2025 at 03:22:32 PM EDT, Jason Olson <josys36@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What would you define as successful open source software?

Thanks,

Jason E. Olson
IBM i Python Engineer/Developer
josys36@xxxxxxxxx



On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Successful" open source is few and far between.  Has been for many years.
Everyone wants something for free these days.  That's all the open
source movement is to most.  Free stuff.

But those who put their heart and soul into open source and contribute
I applaud.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To me, the way one company alone decides what happens with a
hardware or software product, as demonstrated in this discussion.
Tech companies try

to

lock the customer handcuffed to whatever the maestro has. From what
I saw from a distance, Oracle is an extreme example of lock-in: it
looks like their software is made to resist out-migration.

Long story short, in my opinion, if the world as we know it lasts
that long, copyright law and patent law is eventually going to go
the way of

the

dodo bird. Might happen slow for awhile, then all at once.

Open and free software at least is already on the way. It's gotten
stalled, because momentum, and because of my point. It becomes

complicated

and even costly for a business to migrate systems.

IBM i shops already are adopting open source. Apache, multi-layer
communications protocol, Linux here, Linux there.

Even patents. A Kaypro customer at one company that made parts for

copiers

early in the PC era told me that every time they innovated some new

thing,

that a Japanese company would change some little thing and they
would

get a

brand new patent. A CFO at one company I worked at in Cuba, said a

mechanic

for the farm collective he worked for asked him to pick up a Ford
(1954 I
think) truck manual, on his trip to Havana, that the mechanic said
he needed to fix a Soviet-made truck, because it's exactly the same truck.
Patents sham-ments.

-aec

On 07/09/2025 10:24 AM EDT Rob Berendt
<robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

If one is currently in such a situation, where they are just
treading

water

until a conversion is done, then their existing permanent license
will

be

sufficient.  Granted, in the future this may be more difficult. 
It

will

take more planning on the part of the project manager.

But the days of continuing to run on that Windows 3.1 box, or that
IBM

i

7.1 release, are behind us now.  The security risks are too high.

Those of us anxious to get fully on to IBM i 7.6, but vendors are

fighting

tooth and nail against putting some of that maintenance money into

hardware

or software upgrades, are getting upset.

Energy prices?  I would think that the newer models would consume
less energy.

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