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Russell and Liz Jamieson are systems architects with a combined 50 years software design, large scale project management and development experience gained in blue chip companies such as Digital, Barclays, UBS, Credit Suisse, Marconi, Sainsburys, British Aerospace, Vodafone and BSkyB.
Both have computing related degrees (Liz in Computing Science and Russell in Electronics and Microprocessor Engineering). They’ve designed software to control oil refinery gases, optimally pack lorries, pilot RPVs and handle international merchant banking transactions.
Both Liz and Russell have designed extensive database systems and Russell has provided consultancy to vastly improve the performance of many large corporate databases.
When you get software, design, database and internet consultancy from Liz or Russell, you are getting the best.
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Looks like ma.tt closed comments, I was going to come in with some support: GPL is pretty hard to work with as a solo shop. Works really well when programming in the corporate arena, won’t lose code changing jobs.
Having given away code for 10 years with nothing coming back, I’m just a little disenchanted with the notion of free anything at the moment. The cost of free is pretty high.
Dave – I could not agree with you more. I am now now even more confused after Brian Gardner’s recent comments on Ma.tt’s post. See below :
1) Chris Pearson is vilified because he wants to license his stuff, his own way.
2) People start, with Ma.tt’s encouragement to switch to Genesis because it is 100% GPL and in the “spirit of things”.
3) Mark Jaquith states in the FAQ section on this page that “What you could do is offer a theme under a split license. The PHP would be under the GPL, but other static resources could be under some other license.” I don’t want to put words into his mouth, but I believe he and Ma.tt are on the same page.
4) So Chris eventually offers split license.
5) Ma.tt is now totally cheesed off because split isn’t good enough (not sure why he does the Syn.Thesis post about Thesis and not about Headway though . . .)
6) Genesis owner, Brian Gardner states publicly that its not slimy to give his stuff away for free, because the GPL allows it, however goes onto say this. “… they want to use countless hours of our hard work to fill their pockets. While that is allowed under the GPL, it’s clearly IMO not the “spirit””.
Conclusion I draw from all that is the GPL embodies something that isn’t in the spirit of the GPL. And you know what else? The GPL is inelegant, like a piece of badly written code. It should read something like this.
“If you build anything on Wordpress it has to be GPL too. You can give your work away or charge for it – it’s up to you. The GPL allows you to do both. The GPL also allows anyone who gets a copy of your code to give it away or sell it to others. However rather than admit this is a bit annoying, we’ve coined a phrase called ‘the spirit of things’. When someone takes your work and gives it away as is perfectly reasonable under the GPL, you can throw a sort of moral accusation at them by pointing out that they are not partaking in the ‘spirit of things’. We recommend using the ‘spirit of things’ as many times as possible when fighting your GPL corner. It’s worked for us!”
I don’t see how you can say other people’s code can be given away for free or sold in one breath and then get upset if people give it away or sell it. Let’s face it, the GPL works for Brian and good luck to him – I too will become a Genesis customer. But he’s not particularly comfortable with it is he? Not based on what he said. An exercise in double-think, if ever there was one.