Re: Software fixes for older releases -- WDSCI-L

Subject: Re: Software fixes for older releases
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:16:31 -0600
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On 1/30/2018 9:47 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

All true David, however it still takes resources to package, and support
that version.

What if they made the lite version 'community supported'? I've seen a fair number of packages offer that as an option.

Since Liam's product is nearly what you want, I'm still inclined to let IBM
spend all of its resources on RDi full version.

But Liam's product, as nice as it is, isn't Eclipse based ... so it won't be able to play in the larger Eclipse ecosystem ... or support the plug-in's that many vendors (including the one I work for) are providing to integrate with RDI.

I'd actually like it if they would open source the basic RDi features and keep the pro components closed source.

IBM offering IBM i related code as open source isn't unprecedented. JT400 for example.

david

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