[squeak-dev] OpenQwaq is open!

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Tue May 3 18:20:15 UTC 2011


At 11:06 AM -0700 5/3/11, Josh Gargus apparently wrote:
>Yay Teleplace!!  It's great to see this code in the open!
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>And boo to everyone who complains about the license without first saying "Yay Teleplace!!".  Personally, I would also prefer the MIT license to the GPL.  However, the whining and the sense of entitlement is a bit much.  Teleplace owes you nothing, and Teleplace's investors owe you even less. 

I'd say both Teleplace and their Investors owe a tremendous debt to both the originators of Squeak and the community, without which they would still be trying to get something going.

Ken

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>Full disclosure: I was a Qwaq/Teleplace employee for nearly 4 years, up until 6 months ago.  OpenQwaq happened after my time, and I have no more insight into the process than anyone else in the public.  Any apparent insight into the situation is based on speculation, not fact.
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>Teleplace wrote Cog, and much complaining was heard when it wasn't released instantly (although it eventually was, as promised).  Now they release their *whole codebase*, but not under the license that you want.  Boo-hoo. 
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>News flash: investors are in control, and they're only in it for the money.  I'm thankful that people inside Teleplace worked hard to convince the investors to release the code.  It's a bit pathetic to lambast them because they couldn't convince them to release it under the MIT license instead of GPL.
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>Cheers,
>Josh
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>On May 3, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>OpenQwaq is available!
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>><http://www.teleplace.com/company/press_releases/pr-2011_05_03.php>http://www.teleplace.com/company/press_releases/pr-2011_05_03.php
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>>This should be interesting!
>> 
>>Ron Teitelbaum
>><http://www.3dicc.com>www.3dicc.com
>> 




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