On 4/10/2013 8:31 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Good thread.
I like Kirks ideas, but I can't see it flying. IIRC even Dave has alluded to
employer resistance to releasing his efforts on the Lua port.
The issue wrt me releasing Lua is because of our contract with IBM. I
work for a vendor who develops software that's badged and marketed by
IBM. The deal we signed for our
machine had a clause that states that we can only use it to develop
software for IBM products. There are options, such as a zPDT laptop or
Dallas. I've had discussions with the management
team about it and they're a good bunch of guys. I'm sure something will
happen sooner rather than later.
I don't port software for the fun of it. I do it because it's going to
be useful. The other day my colleague was trying to write a web
application for a test case in Java, deploying to Websphere. It
took him almost a week, trying to understand the frameworks. It wasn't
easy to the neophyte with the EAR and WAR and all that stuff. I could
have knocked that up in a couple of hours in Lua in
200 lines of code. That's a real life use case. It's not going into one
of our products but it saves time and money.
Every employment contract I've seen includes ownership of code developed - and
isn't limited to the employment duration. There have even been suggestions that
this may include ideas conceived as a result of (paid) work, even if not
coded/developed there/then.
Shane ...
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