They're saying their code is in the *derived* product that we settled on. In other words, the claim is that the company I settled with not only took MY code but also THIER code.
I also had a popular closed source project that went Open Source. I think people are naturally resistant to change, and unlike a project that was Open Source form the beginning, a lot of your users probably aren't very familiar with Open Source. I think the biggest thing is to give the whole thing time. I had a few good contributors/users fall away when I made the switch, and I got a lot of protests from other users, but in the end the project is much healthier in the Open Source world. Once people started to realize that Open Source isn't a big evil concept (well, not too evil, anyway) they started to come back, and a whole new crowd also joined in. The whole process took about a year, but it was well worth it in the end.
Now many of the same people who were opposed to Open Source in the beginning are actually contributing code to the project now.
We got there about 2 hours before the speech to get coveted front-row seats and a surprise meeting with "Mad Dog". The speech was absolutely incredible, I thought... Being able to initiate a "wave" before the show and seeing a buch of IT people dressed in suits jumping up and cheering really showed the excitement in the audience. I thought there was a lot of Microsoft bashing, but it was all in good taste and humorous. The speech was informal, yet informative. There was a lot of audience participation throughout the speech that really added to the whole thing.
Furthermore, the Linux pavilion was packed after the speech, and I thought it was actually attracting more people than M$'s exhibits. I had a hard time getting to the Linux displays with so many people trying to check them out.
As far as Linux free stuff goes, VA Research's YoYos were a great steal, as well as posters, t-shirts, and CDs from SuSE. I also picked up a few bumper stickers from Red Hat and a copy of the Linux Journal.
Compared to last year, the Linux section of COMDEX was MUCH larger, and the M$ display was quite a bit smaller.
A day well spent in my opinion... I hope to see a transcript or audio/video recording of the speech in the near future!
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TMDA, April 2001: http://tmda.sourceforge.net/history.html
TMDA was based on TMS (1997 or earlier), although I don't think TMS provided the confirmation part.
They're saying their code is in the *derived* product that we settled on. In other words, the claim is that the company I settled with not only took MY code but also THIER code.
What a mess...
Oh shit!!!! There go my bandwidth costs!!! :)
Actually, everysoft.com is hosted by sourceforge, but the forums are on another host.
I also had a popular closed source project that went Open Source. I think people are naturally resistant to change, and unlike a project that was Open Source form the beginning, a lot of your users probably aren't very familiar with Open Source. I think the biggest thing is to give the whole thing time. I had a few good contributors/users fall away when I made the switch, and I got a lot of protests from other users, but in the end the project is much healthier in the Open Source world. Once people started to realize that Open Source isn't a big evil concept (well, not too evil, anyway) they started to come back, and a whole new crowd also joined in. The whole process took about a year, but it was well worth it in the end.
Now many of the same people who were opposed to Open Source in the beginning are actually contributing code to the project now.
We got there about 2 hours before the speech to get coveted front-row seats and a surprise meeting with "Mad Dog". The speech was absolutely incredible, I thought... Being able to initiate a "wave" before the show and seeing a buch of IT people dressed in suits jumping up and cheering really showed the excitement in the audience. I thought there was a lot of Microsoft bashing, but it was all in good taste and humorous. The speech was informal, yet informative. There was a lot of audience participation throughout the speech that really added to the whole thing.
Furthermore, the Linux pavilion was packed after the speech, and I thought it was actually attracting more people than M$'s exhibits. I had a hard time getting to the Linux displays with so many people trying to check them out.
As far as Linux free stuff goes, VA Research's YoYos were a great steal, as well as posters, t-shirts, and CDs from SuSE. I also picked up a few bumper stickers from Red Hat and a copy of the Linux Journal.
Compared to last year, the Linux section of COMDEX was MUCH larger, and the M$ display was quite a bit smaller.
A day well spent in my opinion... I hope to see a transcript or audio/video recording of the speech in the near future!