RE: DCOM is now open code

Subject: RE: DCOM is now open code
From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:37:31 -0500
Hi Paul,

<YourComment>
In your message you use the words "Open Code", "Open Group" and "Open
Source" as if they were synonymous. They are not. AFAIK, there is no
implementation of DCOM that is open source. Mozilla has an implementation
of a small subset of COM that is open source, however.

I don't know what "open code" means but paying $3500.00 for a source
license does not strike as very open.
</YourComment>

<Reply>
Sorry having mixed these terms. The OpenGroup is the name of the consortium.
I should have said:

- free access to binaries for everybody (this is called a snapshot by the
consortium)
- fee based access to non-members (3500,00$ US)
- free to opengroup consortium. Anyway you already paid for your membership
so it would be crazy to charge you again.

So I'll be more precise because often (you included Paul) we make the
equation open = free and take these two words as synonymous. So to speak,
the source code is not free except for binaries and for the consortium
members. Source code is available to non members with a fee of 3500,00$.

Is my take 2 OK :)

Note that I didn't used the term "open" but the terms "free" or "fee" which
better represents the economic realities of the transaction. I just hope I
won't start a fight with that post. I feel like a guy in the middle ages
saying something against the wholly institutions :)

Thanks Paul to remind me to be precise in my formulations. Its only that
having to write in four different languages in the same day (that's the
karma of international business) sometimes creates some fuzzy sets between
concepts or fuzzy mind after so many language switches :)
</Reply>

Regards
Didier PH Martin
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