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Lutris, Close Source, And The Open Source Community

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-a-jilted-wife dept.

sohp writes "Back in mid-September Slashdot ran the story "Lutris Closes Enhydra Source" regarding that company's decision to retract its open source licensing terms. Now George C. Hawkins has reconstructed the pre-closed source reality and discusses it at How Lutris betrayed the Open Source Community . Short summary: blaming Sun was a smokescreen. Interesting use of web archive sites, too." There's definitely a lot of strong feelings against Lutris in the linked piece, but there's also a lot of validity as well.

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  1. An RDBMS in Java? by jcr · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sorry, but I just can't get upset about this.

    It's something I never would have considered using, any more than I'd have chosen an MP3 decoder written in COBOL.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  2. At least they can switch to Zope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll

    Those of us who use Zope are feeling much better than the Enhydra crowd these days. We've know for years that the rug would one day come out from underneath them just like it did with the Ars Digita community.

    Zope Corporation has been moving in the complete oposite direction as Lutris and AD. They've recently opened their CVS to community check-ins, and are working with RMS to make their already open-source license GPL compatable.

    When Zope Corporation hired the PythonLabs team, they heartily agreed to turn over the copyright of Python to Guido van Rossum personally, to be later transfered to the a community led Python Software Foundation a non-profit organization whose members consist of all of the developers who have CVS check-in ability.

    It's obvious (to me, at least) that you can't build a sucessful open-source application based on a closed source platform like Java. Sooner or later, the virus of commercialism will invade the mindset of all the layers above it. Immagine if Apache, or Emacs were written in a closed source language. They would not be what they are today.

    So, hopefully all those folks will learn their lesson and switch to a real open source object-oriented web application platform like Zope.

  3. Re:Can someone explain the dependence on Sun code? by Performer+Guy · · Score: 1, Troll

    I thought the article made it clear that the Sun licensing issues were a smoke screen. That being the case let's move on and lynch Lutris.