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Re: powerEXT - Clarifications from the author

I would argue that the biggest reason open source has never taken off for the i isn't due to the license terms and more a problem of the small size of the audience. If you look at the successful open source projects, they have huge audiences, and only an extremely small percentage of the audience contributes. How many i programers would you have if you took that same tiny percentage of us? Without that critical mass, open source projects tend to fail.

Joe Lee

Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 01/20/2010 09:10 >>>
I think I now understand why open source has never taken off in the
IBM i community - we can never get past the arguments about what the
(largely unenforceable) license terms mean and actually get down to
coding and sharing.

If it is all as bad as some seem to think then why have SugarCRM, PHP,
MySQL, Linux, and on and on been able to succeed so well?


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



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