Re: IBM i GUI Frameworks

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> you to put several thousand more hours into your framework

Actually, after thinking about it some more I figure I do have at least 1
thousand hours invested in open source over the years since I started
MowYourLawn.com in 2002.  And heck, I am still enjoying myself!  Some people
milk me, but a lot of people thank me.  That's life satisfaction right
there!  You should try it sometime instead of assuming it ends badly.

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


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Maybe you need to come right out and ask what it is you have
> > on your mind so we can put this to rest?
>
> I just did ask what what on my mind.  But I agree that the questions and
> answers
> are getting circular.  It appears that the best thing for me to do is just
> wait
> for you to put several thousand more hours into your framework, and have a
> half
> dozen copy cats incorporate it into their proprietary commercial offerings
> without so much as returning to give you the time of day, then see if you
> change
> your mind about the LGPL.  If I understand correctly, that's why the
> organizers
> of the GNU project are asking contributors to stop using the LGPL.  We've
> see
> the same evolution with Zend licensing.
>
> I should admit that I used about 6 lines of source code from your
> HTML2PDF4i
> project.  Thanks.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
>
> -Nathan.