30 Jul 2001 (updated 31 Jul 2001 at 15:33 UTC)
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I'm really tired. Was up til all hours last night
getting Ganymede 1.0.5
released.
At the moment, I'm feeling a bit burnt out on it. I
don't know whether people out there are finding it useful or
not, and I have no idea whether much of anyone is actually
using it apart from us and one oil company in Canada that
adopted it in a way-way-way-too-early form from one of the
0.94 pre-releases.
Also, I've been tracking down and reading a lot of Brett
Glass' anti-GPL rants, and I have started to wonder if
releasing software under the GPL really is such a great
public gift or not, as versus a FreeBSD-style license. I
know lots of people say that Brett Glass is a whiner who
wants to be able to make money off of other people's
software, but it is true that when a GPL'ed piece of
software exists for a particular purpose, it can suck all
the air out of commercial versions of the same thing. I'm
just not sure that the FreeBSD license is all that better on
that count.
Anyway, I just wonder whether Ganymede will ever be
'done', and whether it matters a great deal. If it was a
commercial product, I'd at least know whether it was worth
anything to people. I've had useful bug reports from
people, but no significant contributions from anyone outside
of people that I work with for the last five years that I
have been working on it.
<sigh> I'm just tired right now.