hi massimo, i really appreciate your work on web2py. the product is excellent, i've just launched my first site using it and other two are on the work. i like the new documentation (how it's shaping up) and the way you "rule" the community around web2py prove that your way is right. i mean, you do a lot of work and coordinate inputs.
one thing i really don't understand is your approach to the opensource philosophy. i already pointed it out weeks ago about the non free, pdf documentation that is something really sick in a opensource environment. fortunately i was not the only one thinking this way and, in the end, the online book is now there and shining. now, i think this "copying us" is utterly out of place. as you stated somewhere, your sources of inspiration were initially django and rails. are you copying them? did you make the idea of "web framework" by yourself? were you the first one to come out with the mvc pattern? i don't think so, and this is perfect. the opensource community, seen as a whole, not as a series of rival smaller communities that gather around isolated projects, drains its power from the openness of the ideas, from making them circulate and the word "copy", with the negative connotation of "plagiarize" hidden within it, has nothing to do with this. the guy may or may be not been inspired by web2py, but if he was, it is a good thing that web2py did something so valid that other people want to take inspiration from it. if he ends up writing a piece of software that is better than the current web2py's online editor, we can replace it with the new, better one and the circle will be completed as opening an idea would lead to end up with a better product. that's the whole point of opensource. On Feb 16, 5:57 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > http://haineault.com/blog/125/ > > P.S. Of course we have 3 years of head start and the web2py > architecture was designed for this, theirs isn't. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
