Re: Insteon open source WAS: Something else

[Neil Cherry <njc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:26:36 GMT, Joerg wrote:
> Hello Sylvan,
>
>
>>
>>>Insteon software, I think they should have listened to us about the license
>>>terms. I think acceptance would have gone faster had there been lots of busy
>>>fingers playing with and sharing code. ;)
>>
>>
>> It DEFINITELY would have sold me some units.  I specifically did not buy
>> the sdk and etc. because I did not want 1) code was not freely available
>> and 2) I did not want to be contaminated by restrictive licensing.
>>
>
> That begs the question: When will they ever learn? Many a fine bus or
> protocol has quietly gone lalaland because of elitist treatment. Either
> too restrictive or too expensive, or both. Remember GPIB?

No! ;-)


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