Re: IceBreak goes OS (Open Source)

That sounds great, Niels. Congratulations to you and the board on this decision. I would really love to see a defacto default game changing high performance app server move the iseries out of the pack of Java, .NET, and PHP app servers, and I think this was the first step for that with IceBreak.

When details are setled, and it sounds like it mostly is as the Apache open source license you recently proposed, and an excellent choice of that with the license already in use for most iseries, this should get very favorable promotion from System i News, Midrange, IT Jungle, etc.

Big news for the iseries world indeed.

regards,
rd


Niels Liisberg wrote:

Hi Ralph;

Thanx for your thoughts;

We just finished at board meeting where I quoted this post and your previous
post.

We came to the conclusion:

We let the IceBreak source be 100% open to any body! - no price, no service
contract required...

Open as in open. So you have to sign up so we know who has access to the
source - but that’s it.

The reason is:
Why would anyone bother to make pirate copies if it is 100% free available?
Why would anyone build a "new" IceBreak, based on IceBreak if you can
download a binary distribution for free...

My guess is - nobody.. And to the dudes that have the courage: Be my guest.

The source code it so close bound to the system i and to OS specific stuff
to make IceBreak do what it does. So I guess - no interest from windows
land.

And another bonus: It seams that IBM have been picking our brains since 2006
- so now we maybe can have a little endorsement instead of the "picking"
fealing.

We are still cooking on details, but how does that sound so far?


Best regards


Niels Liisberg
IceBreak Chief SW Architect

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