[Bluej-discuss] Open Source

[Martin Jürgens]

Hey!

The thing is, if BlueJ was Open Source, I and others could create
patches and send them back to the BlueJ developers which would increase
the software quality.

Also, the BlueJ developers could decide which patches they want.

I am not saying: "BlueJ has to be Open Source". I am just saying that
BlueJ is a nice program and I would love it being open sourced.


Martin

Am Freitag, den 16.11.2007, 11:19 +0100 schrieb Henk Schotel:
> To conclude this discussion /-: the dev team should start asking  
> money for BlueJ,
> it will enable them to respond faster to requests or bug reports by  
> hiring people.
> I suggest a price of US$10 for individual users, which is cheap  
> (especially in EU countries).
> At the same time the book can and should be made much less expensive.
> Have a good weekend.
> Henk
> 
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Stephen Sharpe wrote:
> 
> > The important thing to remember is that BlueJ is a very high quality
> > IDE maintained by a dedicated group of people. I could see many
> > reasons why they would want to remain sole maintainers; it is after
> > all their creation and designed for purpose.
> >
> > I have the fortune to be one of Michael Kolling's students, and I
> > wouldn't want to see BlueJ changed too much because of the way we use
> > it. Going Open Source and hence alternative versions kicking around
> > could be messy.
> >
> > University IP policy could be interesting as well. I don't see this
> > going OS any time.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
> >
> > Steve
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