18 Dec
2005
18 Dec
'05
7:45 a.m.
[Dave Dunfield]
>>>I used to release source code to nearly all
of my stuff, but not any more.
>>>I just don't need the hassles.
[Tony Duell]
>>You have just lost any respect I may have had
for you.
[Jim Battle]
>The logic of this, coming from an adult, is
astounding. Dave can and is
>defending himself, but as a happy "customer" of his free tools, I can't
let
>this slide by.
[Mike Stein]
Although I (still :) have a great deal of respect for
Tony, I think an
off-listnote to Dave asking if he could look at the source code would have
been more appropriate than his complaint.
Well, I'll just throw my two cents in with Dave. I've done many projects
where I don't release the source because it *is* a hassle to maintain. Keeping
the source up is as big a chore as maintaining the binaries, people send in
their pet patches and then complain when you don't add them (or don't add
them in a timely fashion), or whine why did you do it that way and I would
have done it this way, and I don't have time for that (even when you write
that the project is, after all, unsupported and they can take it or leave it).
For the record, there's been many others where I do release the source, but
if I don't want to, I'm not going to. It's my freaking project, and in
Dave's
case, it's his freaking software. He can do with it whatever he likes.
If he doesn't want to release the source, then people like Tony can take a
chill pill. The open source movement has turned into some of the biggest
elitist pigs this side of Richard Stallman; I get some of the same heat for
refusing to use the GPL. That's my bloody business, isn't it?
Just because it's non-commercial doesn't mean it should be open source. One
hardly follows the other.
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