From: nico Date: 2002-09-09T07:48:31+09:00 Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby) On September 8, 2002 06:09 pm, Lothar Scholz wrote: > 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. My point was there's nothing stopping someone from selling it GPLed software, how they plan to make money by doing so is up to them. You should understand the difference between proprietary and commercial software. -- To call me "awesome" is an understatement.