Jason,

> >I was confused about the licensing types. I am not an expert on open
> >source and could not make an intelligent decision based on the
> >information in the survey. Maybe include a very brief summary of
> >what each is.
>
> That's a great idea. What I was thinking is a little popup window when
> the mouse flies over the text. I'll do something to cue the user that
> there is popup help available.
>
> Would someone step up and produce this for me? I'm not open
> source license expert...

I would like some sort of "layman" summary as well. I wonder if something
already exists somewhere. I could not see anything on the sites provided
and I did not take the time to read the full license details while filling
out the survey.

> Yes, this is an example of how one could write an InterBase client
> application and have it connect over the internet from anywhere...
> (except through a stingy firewall...)

Exactly - this is one of the changes that IB needs, the ability to define
the IP port used by the client to allow defined routing through a firewall.
For the moment I have to be satisfied with moving over to my NT based
firewall to to try out such apps.


I suppose the question about "most successful" open source is intended to
obtain various interpretive information from people about what they see as
"successful". What is successful? That they make money for the contributors
or the distributors - or is it simply that they have been successful enough
that I actually know about them ;-)

Personally I feel that the later question about 5 most important
requirements is more relevant and appropriate. Still I imagine most people
do as I did and ignore items they dont feel qualified to answer.


Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing
gworboys@...