[Bluej-discuss] Open Source

[Martin Jürgens]

Hi,

in my opinion, BlueJ could be made even more wonderful by open sourcing
it. Bluej being wonderful is no reason for not discussing how to improve
it further. I have stated my arguments in the blog post before, and
others have also posted some strong arguments.

As I do not want to force the developers to do so by any means and I do
not want it to seem like that, I am going to reduce the amount of posts
to this mailinglist regarding the idea. I just wanted to let the
developers know that there is demand for it. Just imagine every Linux
distribution would ship Bluej in it repositories (now that OpenJava has
been released). Users could easily install it - and because of that,
there would be a much greater demand to the book so the Bluej core
developers would also profit from it.


Martin


Am Freitag, den 16.11.2007, 12:20 -0600 schrieb Dr. George McMaster:
> Thanks Steve
> I agree.
> BlueJ is wonderful as it is!!!!!!!!!!
> Really grateful to have such a wonderful environment.
> The price of the book is reasonable, and is a marvelous text written by
> people who have actually written code
> (extra bonus).
> To the open source people ... start your own and get people to contribute.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Geo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bluej-discuss-bounces at bluej.org]On Behalf Of Stephen Sharpe
> Sent: November 16, 2007 10:56 AM
> To: bluej-discuss at bluej.org
> Subject: Re: [Bluej-discuss] Open Source
> 
> 
> I would actually pay money for BlueJ, $10 is extremely cheap (~£4!).
> But you forget it's used by hundreds of students, personally AND at
> university. Bad idea.
> 
> Makes distribution with the book interesting too (which for a textbook
> isn't actually the most expensive... especially considering I use it
> tons more than my others). I agree it is quite expensive, but that's
> textbooks.
> 
> Also... who "owns" BlueJ? Bruce, Michael etc.? University of Kent?
> Deakin University? All five? Could be tricky...
> 
> Anyone else think the BlueJ distribution is ok as it is?
> 
> Steve
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