[Lula] What I've been doing lately...

[Ted Gould]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:56 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 5/28/06, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:
> > Just to be curious, why release a product for free but not open source
> > it?  It just doesn't seem like Picasa is doing anything that the source
> > code would give me information on...
> 
> Gift horse.  Mouth.  Don't look in.

Well, I don't have an x86 box so I can't be blamed for that 100% ;)

No, I was really more curious on an intellectual level.  We can talk
about it in the case of Internet Explorer, I'm just not sure what the
advantage of having a closed-source free product is.  I know with the
Xara guys opening their source code, one of the problems that they have
is that they've bought libraries that they can't distribute.  It made
sense at the time, but now it is causing difficulty for them open
sourcing Xara.

I'm not criticizing Google as much as I'm curious about why.  I'm very
excited about the Wine work as much as anything.  I'd really like to
have Wine working 100% for every application, and this is pushing it in
the right direction.

		--Ted

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