Open Source means that the source is available. Don't confuse it with GNU GPL, which goes beyond OS Regards Anders On Thursday 14 June 2001 02:29, Steven Hatfield wrote:
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 07:05 pm, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
theKompany.com is working on Rekall. It's an access-do-better, and uses python instead of vbscript for application programming. Looks VERY good, and very promising :-)
See: http://www.thekompany.com/projects/rekall/
-tosi
Þann miðvikudagur 13 júní 2001 21:41 skrifaðir þú:
Howdy,
I'm curious about something. Amongst all the hoopla over Office Suites, neither the Star Office or Koffice groups are working on any application that does what MS Access does, i.e. a GUI that works straight off a file, without need for a server.
Or am I wrong? Is there some project that's working on a desktop-user type database app?
P.S. I'm not including anything commercial like Applix - I'm talking about Free/OpenSource ware
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
Ok, let me try it with my trigger finger tied behind my hand. As I was saying, here is the first paragraph of the Rekall license:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The following list summarizes your specific rights under this license:
One user may use the product, for each license that you purchase (additional licenses are needed for each additional concurrent user) You may not redistribute, sell, or rent the product You may make alterations and improvements to the product source code as long as you don't try to defeat our licensing verification code or remove our copyright, trademark notices, and logos. You may not distribute any changes you make without those changes being accepted back by theKompany and incorporated in the Software Product. Please make sure you read and understand the full text of the product license before making a purchase. This is a binding agreement and the software will not function until you have accepted the agreement. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Now, while this isn't exactly an "open source" license, I must say that TheKompany is doing some really great things -- and I wish them the best of luck. Trying to find a business model in the open source community has got to be one of the hardest things to do right now, and TheKompany might actually be able to do it. To me, this is one step further than Microsoft's Shared Source license, where you CAN touch the code, and you CAN redistribute it, provided that TheKompany accepts your changes... this license helps TheKompany maintain their intellectual property rights, and making money, all the while letting people have access to the code too. Talk about having your cake and eating it too!
On a silly note, if Microsoft adopted this philosophy, they might actually be thought of as something other than pure evil itself. Maybe they'd be "the Diet Coke of Evil".. or.. "Quasi Evil" or something... not to say that anyone should think of TheKompany like that.. they aren't doing crazy monopolistic things like changing the content of web pages with their squiggly purple lines... but I digress.
Have a great night everyone! -Steven