From: reckless <reckless2k@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T16:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby)

Hi Phil,

A lot gets lost in this kind of communication, but, to clarify:

1) "Grow up and get professional" was in response to Mr. Petersen
threatening to cancel the project based on the license "gripes".  This was
not intended as an insult, but as advice.

2).  The last statement in my post was: "which is perfectly legitimate";
referring to the decision not to share open source material with commercial
agencies.  Before you go off on me for dissing open source and the blood and
sweat of it's developers... take the time to understand what you are
responding to.

I hope that clears things up.  But, I should have known better than to share
my opinion on this forum.  We all know how agitated people can get... from
now on I will keep it Ruby-related :)


Jeremy



"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote in message
news:algl3j02nc3@enews2.newsguy.com...
> In article <alg1li$3ic$02$1@news.t-online.com>,
> reckless <reckless2k@yahoo.com> 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.
>
> This sort of statement is unjustified, uncalled for...
>
> >The reason people are not thrilled is that
> >they may be interested in using Jruby on commercial projects; the GNU
> >licenses restrict this.
>
> Why couldn't you use JRuby on commercial projects?  What's stopping you?
> The GPL only keeps you from profitting from the hard work of others.
>
> Actually you can use JRuby all you like, you can even even sell CDs with
> JRUby on it...  as long as you make the sourcecode available.
>
> If you don't like JRuby's license then create your own project which is
> covered by whatever license you prefer.
>
> Phil