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 mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.netfolder.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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