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Re: HTTPAPI vs ISockets
" The attitude of "you've got the source, and it was free so change it
yourself" is sort of strange and only dampens the desire for others to
use it."
WHAT? So this proves, in addition to Scott's comments about not
understanding URL's and Web Services, perhaps Mr. Cozzi doesn't
understand Open Source. Of course, growing up in what *was* a more
or less proprietary world (Midrange Systems circa 1980) you can see
how that can bias one's understanding of what open source software is
all about. And the i world today still lags, IMHO, in developing and
releasing RPG based open source solutions. But the quoted statement
is just plain WRONG. Having the source and being free to change and
enhance is what open source is all about. And, as a practical matter,
contributing BACK those changes to the community is also what open
source is all about (apparently also not understood by Mr. Cozzi).
Fortunately, having progressive folks like Scott and Aaron Bartell to
promote and to deliver open source solutions, tailored to the i
community, will eventually overcome the ignorance of using not knowing
how to use open source software effectively in the i enterprise.
Interesting post Simon. Hard to believe their are still folks with
that attitude out there.
Pete
Jones, Simon wrote:
This isnt really a technical question as such, more a
comment/statement of support for HTTPAPI. Having used this facility
for a while with no issues, no problems, and knowing that it has saved
me in the past probably weeks of effort in doing I was amused to see
the following post in one of the forums
"Heck, look at iSockets ([1]www.isockets.net) it is a SOCKETS wrapper
*SRVPGM that I
wrote a couple years ago. Why did I write it? Because the one that
"everybody"
suggested I use, written by a noted Magazine Author, was so ridge that
I
couldn't install it into anything other than the library the author
initially
used. Which meant I had to add yet another library to my library list
to,
compile it, to run it and to allow the end-users to use it. The
attitude of
"you've got the source, and it was free so change it yourself" is sort
of
strange and only dampens the desire for others to use it. And this one
was
written by a relatively good developer."
At least he thinks Scott is a 'relatively' good developer, although
quite what you need to do to be an 'actually' good developer is beyond
me at the moment!
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