Re: RE: CGIDEV2

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a well known fact that there are way to many lawyers in te USA, 
and in order to make a living not all of them stick to justice, there 
are some that will try to make trouble just to get some money.

Nathan Andelin wrote:

> Good point, Walden.  Giovanni offered and promoted
> CGIDEV2 under an "open source" license at his IBM Web
> site, which makes it hard for IBM to sustain an
> exclusive claim to it.
>
> On the other hand, Giovanni later indicated that IBM
> refused his request to offer an "open source" license
> for CGIDEV2, that an IBM attorney is miffed, and that
> he was unprepared for an "IBM vs. Giovanni" battle in
> court.
>
> Giovanni recently acknowledged IBM's control over
> CGIDEV2.  I got the impression that he felt he went
> out on a limb by including CGIDEV2 in the open source
> license, but no longer had control over his former Web
> site, so he couldn't change the wording.
>
> It seems to me that Giovanni and a lot of users are
> counting on IBM to release CGIDEV2 under an open
> source license.  
>
> Who knows what the folks at IBM CTC think?
>
> Nathan.
>