Re: [little OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C
Re: [little OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C
- Subject: Re: [little OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C
- From: Bob Ippolito <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:21:54 -0400
On Apr 20, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Greg Hurrell wrote:
El 21/04/2004, a las 0:49, mmalcolm crawford escribis:
As noted a few days ago, this is not an appropriate forum to discuss
general issues to do with application licensing. Please keep it
relevant to technical issues for Mac OS X and Cocoa in particular.
mmalc
The thread started on topic and it has drifted off and back on topic
and off again since then. The number of posts to the thread indicates
that it is clearly of interest to a sizeable number of Mac OS X and
Cocoa programmers, who by nature of their work, often have to face
application licensing questions.
I think in this case that stomping on the thread is probably not
called for, especially seeing as the discussion appears to have
petered out of its own accord (or come close to doing so). If this
were a discussion of oil painting or automobile repair then I would
agree that it would not be at all appropriate for the list. But as it
stands I think it's been a useful debate that has probably helped a
lot of Mac OS X/Cocoa programmers.
It's also quite easy to ignore a thread you're not interested in with
10.3's Mail.app (presumably other mail readers do this as well),
because you can just fold it in.
For what it's worth, I've actually found some of the opinions in this
thread much more interesting than the normal spew of "How do I do [well
documented thing]?" or "Why doesn't [incorrect usage]
(work|compile|link)?", even though I am primarily an open source
developer right now and don't particularly care for product activation
or backwards copy protection schemes.
-bob
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