At 03:34 PM 06-07-00 +1000, you wrote:

>I understood the source code licence has already been decided on. I would
>expect any prerelease source tarball to use that licence.
>
>Im not exactly 'in touch' with the latest that is going on here, Im just an
>opensource user/developer that has used interbase perviously in commercial
>developments and would like to do so again in my research based scientific
>analysis programs. I wasn't even aware of a current conference - perhaps
>someone will make a pleasant announcement. It was just concerned by the press
>release on the 28th.
>
>Regards
>
>Mark

The press release was written by Ann Harrison. Ann ain't gonna put her
name to anything that ain't what it says. Dale Fuller wouldn't DARE
co-sign it if he was planning to break faith - that would be a Very Bad
Career Move, don't you think?

The conference = The Borland Developers' Conference (Borcon) in San Diego,
starting this Saturday, through to the following Wednesday. InterBase will
have a large representation there, in terms of both people and
presentations. Dale Fuller will be there. Dale Fuller likes parties and
Big Events. Fear not. As Jason commented, wait till Borcon is over and
start raising the roof if something doesn't happen there.

Helen

>Jason Wharton wrote:
>
> > > So how about a "pre-release " source code drop, to quell my and
> presumably
> > > others concerns?
> >
> > That's a no-can-do. Source is source and it isn't given out until there is
> > licensing in place to protect it. In my opinion this would be a very
> foolish
> > thing for Inprise to do.
> >
> > There are no buyers in the wings. A whole new company is being established
> > to take over InterBase. Once this is all in place and the license is truly
> > open source then there is no company on earth, Microsoft, Oracle or the
> > like, that can take something away that has been rightfully licensed to the
> > public.
> >
> > True after a year or two they could decide to again proceed with a closed
> > source version of InterBase but the opened versions will always remain
> > opened.
> >
> > It's gonna happen. Let's at least give them until after the conference to
> > start running them through the ringer for missing a deadline.
> >
> > My $0.02 worth...
> >
> > Jason Wharton
> > CPS - Mesa AZ
> > http://www.ibobjects.com
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