From: "Paul Morgan" To: "George C. Hawkins" References: <021201c0f045$b9eadb00$1100a8c0@petya> Subject: Re: InstantDB, its move to a close source future and your tool? Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:15:03 -0700 George, You are clearly bitter. However, you will find that all of these tools were built against InstantDB prior to Lutris' ownership when the database was under the same license as it is now. - Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "George C. Hawkins" To: ; ; ; Cc: "Paul A Morgan" ; ; Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:06 AM Subject: InstantDB, its move to a close source future and your tool? > If you've been following developments on the InstantDB mailing list and > at Lutris.com and Enhydra.org you can see that there commitment to > opensourcing InstantDB seems to have died. InstantDB's package naming > now uses com.lutris rather than org.enhydra and while they haven't > discounted opensourcing the time frame now seems to be distant future > rather than imminent as it was previously always claimed to be. I think > not actively discounting an opensource version in the distant future is > just bogus Lutris talk - a "get out of jail free" card (for those who > play Monopoly). > > Your tool is listed on Lutris' site at: > > > http://www.lutris.com/products/projects/instantDB/software/downloads/i nd > ex.html > > I presume you developed your tool against InstantDB at a time when > everyone thought it would soon be opensourced. As this no longer looks > likely in the near future are you happy to see Lutris benefit (i.e. they > got a useful tool developed for free which works with InstantDB and can > only add to its perceived value to commercial purchasers) from your work > which it looks like you did based on false information (that Lutris > would soon make InstantDB available to the user community as an open > source product). > > If you think Lutris cheated you and the rest of InstantDB's user > community please ask them to remove the link to your product from their > site. > > If you disagree with my thinking sorry for bothering you. Any response > or thoughts pro or negative would be appreciated. > > Thanks - yours, > > > George. > >