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My Outlook Since Changing Jobs (was Re: What should we do with this list?)

Hi Henrik,
I don't plan to change my open source activities. In fact, this was a big factor in my job choice.... Profound Logic does not make or sell tools that are similar with the ones I've written. (Some of the other vendors I considered do sell products that are similar.)
In fact, Profound Logic actually uses some of the stuff I've written, and they'd like to offer commercial support contracts to certain customers who use my tools, but want to have commercial support. So, Profound Logic is encouraging me to continue to write and support these tools. 

I hope this helps set your mind at ease?


On 9/27/2012 3:25 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

    Hi Scott,

    Please don't take this as an insult, but I must ask you what your
    intentions are with HTTPAPI and others now you have become a part of
    Profound Logic are your projects in a fade away state or do you
    plan to still be active in Open Source?

    Generally traffic has gone down not only on iProDeveloper, but in all
    forums during the last couple of years. My personal believe is that
    this is not related to IBM I, but it is a general development probably
    caused by people using a lot of time on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
    etc.

    iProDeveloper conversion was a catastrophe, first the forum was down
    for a week, but the result the new forum - was lousy and didnt
    really offer something new just trouble.

    Some has suggested to move to Code400, but that is announced for sale
    and it is also a very broad line IBM I forum just as Midrange.com, that
    has many experts, perhaps to many and again is focused on more general
    questions. IBM's RPG Café has low traffic and is also general and not
    very well known.

    Where Easy400 will go the day Giovanni stops we do not know either, but
    the problem will be the same in the sence "what to do?"

    IMHO diversified forums isn't the way to go any more, but a common
    consolidated forum specialized in IBM I Open Source Projects could be
    the solution that made the trick and who would be better to setting it
    up and running it than Jon Paris ;-)




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