From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-06-02T02:27:30+09:00
Subject: Re: one click annihilator

On 6/1/06, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Jeff Pritchard <jp@jeffpritchard.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > Someday I hope to escape from "C hell" and make a living writing with a
> > real language.
>
> Woohoo! Well, someday maybe.
> I at least have C# as well as my C, and am finding myself calling a
> few Ruby scripts from C# to do background things. I guess one of the
> downsides of opensource projects not caring about "mainstream
> acceptance" is that I don't get to program in Ruby at work much.

Actually, in general, "open source" projects (like, say, Apache) -- or
rather, their primary contributors -- *do* indeed tend to care very
much about mainstream acceptance. "Free software" project contributors
OTOH tend to care more about their software remaining free, with
popularity or acceptance being mostly a nice side-effect.

The current Ruby license seems to straddle both sides: the GPL is
pretty much the standard free software license, but the rest of the
Ruby license looks a bit incomplete or vague in some areas, to me
anyway.