License Approval Process

[Derek J. Balling]

Something to keep in mind.

For a company, when it comes down to

1.) Pay nobody for advice and have your open-source license fall into 
a black hole", or
2.) Pay nobody and have your staff lawyers who were going to be there 
anyway draft up a nice closed-source license from all the 
boiler-plate they have lying around"

... businesses are going to choose the latter, rather than end up 
waiting forever and not hearing back. (At least a smart business 
would... smart businesses don't lodge their product up their ass 
while waiting for some group of geeks to tell them they're ok.)

We _REALLY_ need to take a more serious attitude towards the MANY 
people who have submitted licenses and to which TPTB have (basically) 
ignored over the past year. (And yes, I think this has been going on 
about a year now).

My $.02 worth ...

D


At 7:30 AM -0700 8/10/00, Rick Moen wrote:
>begin  Dave Stanley quotation:
>
>>  ...For 6 weeks ago, I waited patiently to no avail....   At the risk
>>  of hurting my chances of a prompt review, I'm not impressed at all.
>
>And you paid so much for all this, too!  I suggest you demand a 30%
>discount.  It's only fair.
>
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