| Subject | RE: [ib-support] Borland strikes back with IB6.5??? |
|---|---|
| Author | JMayora |
| Post date | 2001-12-05T16:01:51Z |
BRAVO!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:56 AM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] Borland strikes back with IB6.5???
At 05:07 PM 05-12-01 +0200, Salim Naufal wrote:
of elves doing OUR bug fixes for us, just think how far we could be pushing
the horizon right now, given the strength and dedication of the folk working
on our code. In the past 16 months, we needed those strong coders for a LOT
of bug-fixing. In Open Source, you take the current as it serves, them's
the breaks.
I'd be sorry to lose Fred but I don't personally feel any warm fuzzies for a
big corporation which feels compromised by a non-commercially-driven policy
that refuses to stamp "certified" on software that is still short of passing
the tests.
The point has been made before, that a "release" in the constantly-evolving
open source environment is merely a line in the sand. It says "we added yay
new features and yay bug fixes up to this point and we believe they work at
this point". A full release isn't an end in itself, it's a marker on the
track.
If a corporation wants a stronger database, it will stay around Firebird and
wait for that point - where the *developers* are satisfied that things work.
Then, maybe, it will accept its free-beer database with some gratitude.
If it wants a marketing team to decide when the release is ready, then it
has plenty of commercial products to choose from.
Helen
All for Open and Open for All
InterBase Developer Initiative ยท http://www.interbase2000.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:56 AM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] Borland strikes back with IB6.5???
At 05:07 PM 05-12-01 +0200, Salim Naufal wrote:
>I am sure that if the Firebird developers had the money and resoursesAlso, if Firebird had some unacknowledged, unresourced, indefatiguable team
>available to Borland, they would have reached version 2.
of elves doing OUR bug fixes for us, just think how far we could be pushing
the horizon right now, given the strength and dedication of the folk working
on our code. In the past 16 months, we needed those strong coders for a LOT
of bug-fixing. In Open Source, you take the current as it serves, them's
the breaks.
I'd be sorry to lose Fred but I don't personally feel any warm fuzzies for a
big corporation which feels compromised by a non-commercially-driven policy
that refuses to stamp "certified" on software that is still short of passing
the tests.
The point has been made before, that a "release" in the constantly-evolving
open source environment is merely a line in the sand. It says "we added yay
new features and yay bug fixes up to this point and we believe they work at
this point". A full release isn't an end in itself, it's a marker on the
track.
If a corporation wants a stronger database, it will stay around Firebird and
wait for that point - where the *developers* are satisfied that things work.
Then, maybe, it will accept its free-beer database with some gratitude.
If it wants a marketing team to decide when the release is ready, then it
has plenty of commercial products to choose from.
Helen
All for Open and Open for All
InterBase Developer Initiative ยท http://www.interbase2000.org
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