From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2002-09-09T07:09:40+09:00 Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby) On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 18:55:17 GMT, nico wrote: >On September 8, 2002 01:49 pm, reckless wrote: >> > if you don't like the JRuby project and want to stop it you are on the >> >> right way. >> >> >> Grow up and get professional. The reason people are not thrilled is that >> they may be interested in using Jruby on commercial projects; the GNU >> licenses restrict this. This is great for the open source community, but >> not so great for commercial developers who what to take advantage of open >> source. It all depends on what market you want to reach with your product >> or if you don't want to support commercial development with open source >> products... Which is perfectly legitimate. >> >> Jeremy > >I don't see the problem for commercial developers. They can still sell their >software as long as they make it GPLed. *LOL* This proofes that you have never been involved in the very hard process to sell software. There is no way to make a living with GPL software, except for a few persons, but not for a whole industry.