I think I like Cees De Groot's concept. It's quite clear people have their
own pies to bake around here with SC the key support. I'm sure if Alan
Grimes could implement his project it would be well received.

Regards,
Gary




----- Original Message -----
From: "Cees de Groot" <cg at cdegroot.com>
Newsgroups: lists.squeak
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: Saving The World.


> 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 ...).
>
>
> --
> Cees de Groot               http://www.cdegroot.com     <cg at cdegroot.com>
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> Building software is like quantum mechanics: you can predict what it
> will do, or when it will be ready -- but not both.
>
>
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