Am 31.08.2005 um 08:07 schrieb Alan Lovejoy:

> Jecel>I don't understand - Sun wasn't able to utterly kill Self in  
> 1995
> because they *had* previously released it all as open source.
>
> Source code available under an open source license is not the same  
> thing as
> "a Squeak-like open source **development project** for the language  
> and
> IDE."  In other words, a license is not a project, and a legal  
> document is
> not a socio-cultural movement. The availability of the Self source  
> code
> never sparked anything resembling the level of enthusiasm or  
> participation
> engendered by the release of Squeak.
>

This nicely describes thes difference between Tweak and Squeak or
Croquet and Squeak, too. The licence is is not what makes a project
open.

       Marcus