Saving The World.

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Mon Sep 3 07:00:05 UTC 2001


Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> said:
>You're making a common mistake though. Squeak is not aimed at being a
>commercial alternative.
>
Says who? I really would hope that people will want to use Squeak for
commercial purposes and adapt if for their needs - at the end of the day,
it'll only get better for it. It's extremely dangerous with open source
software to start saying "X is not meant for Y" - let the community decide and
just make sure that Z (which is whatever you want) isn't left out. 

Otherwise, Linux would still be a Finnish CS student's spare time hack (after
all, it was not *aimed* at being a commercial alternative to ...).


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