Re: VCLZip Pro 3.04

From: Alan Garny (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 01/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:12:05 -0000

"Davids" <nowhere@nowthere.com> wrote in message
news:400C3572.966C85F4@nowthere.com...
> Your position is untenable, at best. Your implication is that if
Microsoft
> bought up this package and bundled it as part of Windows, then it would be
OK
> for you to use it?

Yes.

> I too work in an academic research environment, and while we develop and
release
> a large body of code to the research community, our choice was to NOT
release
> source code because we didn't want to have to deal with supporting it.
This is
> NOT an "open source" development effort, it is a controlled development
> environment where we make sure that what goes into the code base is based
on
> sound science and established research, not some jokers who think the
latest
> trick algorithm might be useful to people who need to get reliable
results.

Well, independent of whether one does "serious" research or not, I would not
use someone's software if it didn't come with source code. Who can guarantee
me that the person will still be doing research in a year's time?

Also, you mention that you don't provide the source code so you don't have
to support your software? I must confess that I don't see the logic... It's
rather if I were not to release my source code that I would have to support
my software... By releasing his/her source code, one can do whatever s/he
wants...

To release the source code also allows others to report bugs in the code,
should there be some. While, if the source code is not released, what
happens if, for instance, I find a bug in your software? I am stuck, right?
Great then! (*sarcasm*)

    Alan.

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