Re: Adoption of RPG OA

Go to http://systeminetwork.com/ , there are 3 articles on open source on
their
main page, OpenRPGUI, Renaissance and powerEXT AF - and magazines has
a lot of articles on open source.

IMHO RPGOA is a dead duck - it's not even CGIDEV2 - it's 10-15 years to late
and
it lacks a consistant graphical UI and it is only supported by (as far as I
know) 3 vendors.

Today - nobody, not even IBM, can get paid to offer a product that dosn't
offers
a "total solution" - read it as something on the screen, RPGOA is like
offering
a DSPF, as we know it on IBM i, without the build in 5250 environment - this
you
have to invent yourselve or buy - it will never be the break true for IBM i,
it will never
attract new young programmers to IBM i, but it may serve as expensive
prolonging
of "oldboys" working life.

Or does it? It seems to me that it only makes programmers already standing
on the
beach to move out where the get their feet weet and they still has to
conquere the ocean.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Raul

We are talking here about Open Access, not open source - I know that
some poster mentioned the latter, but the thread is not really about
that - except that it is difficult to do open source development with
Open Access for all the reasons we have been stating here.

I also know that it is possible to write an article that is "dependent
on serious, honest profesionals, that will take the time to learn about
the proyects" - even when the author gets paid.

There is nothing wrong with getting paid to write an article about
anything - just as there is nothing wrong with getting paid to do
programming for your employer.

:-X

Regards
Vern

On 3/11/2011 1:25 PM, Raul A. Jager W. wrote:

Open Source is great, but magazines will always go after the money.
No magazine will publish good, realistic articles about open source and
lose the paid advertising.
Open Source is dependent on serious, honest profesionals, that will take

> and reject the nice comisions

offered as an incentive to recomend a paid option.
Are we?

Jon Paris wrote:

On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:39 AM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

There is a always another option - Time for us to put our opensource

hats on! :-)

And that is where I get really frustrated by the licensing etc. Larry.

Magazine articles and Open Source type projects are not likely to
proliferate until you know your audience can get their hands on the required
software pre-reqs. Right now it is a bit like writing code for a target
audience that hasn't got the RPG compiler!

Jon Paris

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