Re: Open Source archive (was Panel groups)

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My experience with open source on the iSeries is that iSeries people don't
understand open source, and in fact many of them shun it.

Sure, those professionals who don't shun it are quite happy to use the
open source software, as long as you teach them how to use it on your own
time for free...   but give back?   no, if the project doesn't do exactly
what they want it to, they just complain about it, and then go buy a
commercial product.

Actually give time to make the project better?   actually contribute code,
documentation, etc to the project?   This is lost on them.  I think it's
mainly because people don't work on the iSeries on their own time for
their own benefit... they do it because someone is paying them.   And
people don't want to pay for free software.

By contrast, the people in the BSD and Linux communities are more than
happy to "give something back".  This is the ideal community, since the
real techies in the PC world (those who really enjoy programming enough to
do it in their spare time) tend to gravitate towards these platforms.

Still...  if you want to host a directory of open-source apps for the
iSeries (though, I think John Ross is already trying to do that) please
include my sites in your list.

   http://www.scottklement.com/oss.html
   http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/


On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Metz, Zak wrote:

> I'd be interested in hosting such an archive of source if something
> better doesn't already exist. I know there is a site for the toolkit,
> but I've never seen anything simple enough to quickly find the snippet
> or API wrapper I need.
>