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Curt Wuollet
Hi Tim
> >As long as support is only available from (or controlled by) a single entity, you're going to have problems.
>
> No, this does not follow. The most you can say is that there is the potential for a problem, but frankly I'd rather have a support contract and someone to sue if it's not upheld
Yeah, right. Read your license again. Seriously, you should, before the situation comes up.
> than chance my arm with a gaggle of be-sandalled geeks with beatific grins on a self-congratulary bulletin board. Who are more likely to explain that my whole way of working is wrong than attempt to align the software with how I want to work.
Straight line FUD. I don't even own a pair of sandals :^) and I would be glad to compare our developer's credentials with anybody's. Let's not
get slanderous or propagate myths. Probably more sandals at IBM these days.
> I do find this discussion bizarre. The software in question is being used to build machines who will produce lifetime profits of 100 times the capital investment used to create them. If anything needs to be given away for free, the attention might better be focused at this end of the equation than on the material and software supplied to produce it.
Is it somehow wrong to give it away if you want to? They have their purpose, we have ours. I find it strange that you would think that theirs is more in your favor. Think about it.
> If you want expertise in your supplier, you will have to pay for it at some point. If you don't, then Mat-PLC will be ready real soon now, really.
How on earth can you possibly make the judgement that we don't have expertise. The very idea is to have a community of experts in their particular field. We could very reasonably have a great deal more expertise on tap than any one company could ever afford. It's even perfectly reasonable that we could share some of the very same people. Very strange reasoning indeed.
Regards
cww
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> >As long as support is only available from (or controlled by) a single entity, you're going to have problems.
>
> No, this does not follow. The most you can say is that there is the potential for a problem, but frankly I'd rather have a support contract and someone to sue if it's not upheld
Yeah, right. Read your license again. Seriously, you should, before the situation comes up.
> than chance my arm with a gaggle of be-sandalled geeks with beatific grins on a self-congratulary bulletin board. Who are more likely to explain that my whole way of working is wrong than attempt to align the software with how I want to work.
Straight line FUD. I don't even own a pair of sandals :^) and I would be glad to compare our developer's credentials with anybody's. Let's not
get slanderous or propagate myths. Probably more sandals at IBM these days.
> I do find this discussion bizarre. The software in question is being used to build machines who will produce lifetime profits of 100 times the capital investment used to create them. If anything needs to be given away for free, the attention might better be focused at this end of the equation than on the material and software supplied to produce it.
Is it somehow wrong to give it away if you want to? They have their purpose, we have ours. I find it strange that you would think that theirs is more in your favor. Think about it.
> If you want expertise in your supplier, you will have to pay for it at some point. If you don't, then Mat-PLC will be ready real soon now, really.
How on earth can you possibly make the judgement that we don't have expertise. The very idea is to have a community of experts in their particular field. We could very reasonably have a great deal more expertise on tap than any one company could ever afford. It's even perfectly reasonable that we could share some of the very same people. Very strange reasoning indeed.
Regards
cww
--
Free Tools!
Machine Automation Tools (LinuxPLC) Free, Truly Open & Publicly Owned Industrial Automation Software For Linux. mat.sourceforge.net.
Consultancy: Wide Open Technologies: Moving Business & Automation to Linux.