[Bluej-discuss] Open Source

[Adrovane Kade]

Hi.

I agree that there is no more reason to keep the BlueJ source code
closed. I understand the authors' concerns about financing the project
and keep control over development. But I think there's so many people
using it now and so many improvements could be made available faster
if it was open source. Another reason I think it is important is the
fact that BlueJ is not intended to compete with "industrial" Java
IDEs. Its main purpose is to teach object-oriented development, isn't
it? So, this educational motivation, IMHO, makes it an almost
"natural" candidate for open source.

Regards,

Adrovane.

2007/11/14, Chris Share <cpsmusic at yahoo.com>:
> I agree!
>
> I raised the issue of breakpoints disappering after each compile and nothing has been done about it. If BlueJ was OS I could have addressed this myself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Jürgens <martin at gamesplace.info>
> To: bluej-discuss at bluej.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 7:18:40 AM
> Subject: [Bluej-discuss]  Open Source
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I would like to second the wish of BlueJ being licensed under an
> OSI-compatible license.
>
> With BlueJ 2.20, I have an issue making it unusable for me and my
> stundents. I have already reported a bug report, but there does not
>  seem
> to be a lot of progress being made regarding the issue.
>
> If BlueJ was Open Source, I could have looked up which change caused
> that issue and tell you my result.
>
> As most Linux distributions only distribute Open Source code, BlueJ
> could flow into them and be installed and discovered by many potential
> users by some simple clicks.
>
> And lastly, if the BlueJ development stopped, a community could improve
> it and make sure that it runs on modern platforms (although Java is a
> good start ;)).
>
>
> Martin
>
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