Re: IBM proposes EGL go open source; Tuesday June 29 at 10AM Eastern, 7AM Pacific

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

We will know that EGL is open source to your satisfaction (and mine also)
once IBM releases a spec of it and other implementations start surfacing
from entities other than IBM.  This would be similar to how JSF works,
though maybe not entirely similar (I am not entirely versed in how IBM setup
the EGL syntax and interfaces to know if alternate implementations are
supported).

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I'm willing to consider that open source EGL is really a good thing for
> IBMi developers.
>
> I'm just not convinced (yet) that open source EGL is a complete,
> stand-alone package. I don't want to get wrapped up in open source EGL, then
> discover I really need to get the licensed version of EGL tools in order to
> run a business with EGL. I need to feel confident that open source EGL is
> more than bait for the licensed version.
>
> Kelly Cookson
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Dot Foods, Inc.
> 217-773-4486 x12676
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