19 Jan
2007
19 Jan
'07
4:07 a.m.
On 18-Jan-07, at 8:50 PM, jtd wrote:
It was almost dead. But gpl anything and they rise from the ashes. there are more brains in the rest of the world than in the place u happen to be. KG is not completely wrong.
it is a toss-up whether opensourcing will revive the corpse - it failed with netscape (if I remember right), succeeded wildly with blender. I think it all depends on which stage in the life of the product it is opensource. If it is a last-ditch effort to revive it when all else has failed ...
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
lawgon@au-kbc.org
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/