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Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk wrote:
On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:13, Brett Parker wrote:
Right - so why the hell say you don't care about them, then... Would you please stop being so damned flippant and actually say what you mean?
OK, I didn't mean I didn't care about licensing, I meant I don't care what form the license takes as long as it entitles me to use the software in the way that I require.
Right.
Nice, direct attack. Love it. I'm a moron because you can't actually say what you mean. typical closed source developer mentality at work there.
You're just a zealot. You may as well have said "typical Jew who has a hook nose".
I'm not a zealot, I work for a company that is currently developing a closed source search product. I just like for the tools that I use to be licenced in a way that actually allows me to reuse them, and that fits with what our developers need. But hey, you appear to have the opinion that any one that actually carefully checks that a licence fits the purpose that is required is a zealot. Congratulations.
Just because I write closed-source software doesn't mean I'm some kind of vampire who steals from the open-source community.
I don't care wether you do or don't, but I certainly don't want to touch software written by someone that can't actually decide wether they do or do not like licences. Here - have some garlic, just incase :P
I suspect you've already used some of my software somewhere, you just don't know it - for example if you've ever had to fill in an online planning application to your local council. I don't write desktop applications.
Oh, because I've filled in so many of those... or rather - no, I haven't. Infact, unless you've written in such a way that my browser does not require flash, java, or any of those other annoying restrictions to my productivity, it's very unlikely that I ever will. If it's just a cgi - then where's the advantage of saying it's closed source?
This is starting to bore the hell out of me, it's quite obvious that you just don't get it and that you want to argue to the death.
Have a nice life, maybe you could get on with some of that work that you mentioned in the first post? - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk