Against wastefull forks (Re: Taking Ownership of Squeak(WAS Re: Python at Disney))

Andrew C. Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Sat Mar 10 02:48:02 UTC 2001


At 8:46 PM -0500 3/9/01, Doug Way wrote:
>"Mark A. Schwenk" wrote:
>>
>>  Last year at Camp Smalltalk in San Diego Claus Gittinger announced 
>>that Smalltalk/X was being released as open source but with a 
>>license requiring a fee for commercial use. I believe that 
>>Smalltalk/X will become free for commercial use sometime this 
>>summer, but am not sure of all the licensing details.
>
>Interesting!  If it becomes free for commercial use, does that mean 
>the company (Exept) will be getting its revenues from support 
>contracts and/or consulting instead?

Free for commercial use, not.  "requiring a fee for commercial use" 
is what I read.





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