From: "George C. Hawkins" To: , , , Cc: "Paul A Morgan" , , Subject: InstantDB, its move to a close source future and your tool? Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:06:20 +0100 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/ind 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.