Re: [DotGNU]Basic software that is going to be needed

[Barry Fitzgerald]

> meson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    In order to provide an open source implementation under the GPL,
> dont you think that there should be open source tools like web
> servers, web browsers that work accross different OS's/Processors, and
> are under the GPL. I am unaware (due to unfamiliarity with open source
> software) of such implementations. Dont you think that efforts should
> start on implementing the basic functionality of these tools? As an
> example, someone on the AUTH list asked how a software might hook into
> IE. I tried to search the msdn, but I didnt come up with anything
> useful. Implementing our own tools under the GPL would not only make
> us familiar with their workings, and hence allow us to modify their
> behaviour at will, but also give the masses out there, the chance to
> use these GPL'd tools for a change.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - Amir


Well, there's a point where a project can take on too much.  All of
these things are wonderful ideas, but they don't fit within the working
scope of dotGNU explicitely.  Personally, I say keep those ideas in your
head for later days.  But, for now, we've got working Open Source
solutions of all of those products so let's wait to replace them with
GPL'ed projects.  

        -Barry