[Phpsecuresite-announce] RE: Vaporware

[Woolhiser, E. <Eri...@bm...>]

I've got some real life grungy things to do today ...like resurrect a =
system
that bluescreens while booting... I've read your note on GPL. I use GPL =
for
midwatch.org and the last time I read it, it allows you to use the open
source code anyway you like, but it does not allow redistribution of =
the
code unless you open all of your code that you mixed in with the open =
source
code you got.

Thus a e-commerce company could use your code as part of thier website, =
and
keep the whole website closed as long as they didn't distribute the =
site.

The idea is to keep some company like Microsoft from taking Linux, =
adding
some new features, closing the code and making a buck of thier new and
improved Linux. It also prevents them from using portions of Linux code =
to
solve problems in Windows and keeping Windows closed.

Hey did you hear about the new Windows product that combines the best
features of NT, Me and CE? It's called Windows CEMeNT, as solid as a =
rock,
and as dumb as a brick!

I see by your quote of Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry, that you very likely =
have
read Eric Raymond. It's helpful to speak the same language. ;)

Anyway back to PHPSecureSite, I don't know that our goals are the same =
but
here's what I think would be useful:

Picture the Webmaster who is a little code savy, wants PHP dynamic =
content,
but is renting space on some websever where he doesn't have total admin
control over the server.

It may be that PHPSecureSite will be a quick and easy way for him to =
build a
website that would track users and allow logins and stuff. Can we =
construct
a system were such a webmaster could make use of PHPSecureSite while =
only
having limited admin control? Assume that the webmaster has been =
granted
full access to at least one MySQL database on the server.

Anyway, if you want to use the mail lists on source forge you should =
start
using them.=20
While this message isn't really a release announcement, I am cc:ing it =
there
because you don't have a developers mail list set up.

Well not only do you have to realease early and often but you should =
get
chatty about the project and start building a maillist archive so that
people browsing your project can believe that there is some life in it.

Good luck!
(and BTW, there is no conspiracy) http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/ecsl



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