Re: [Bug-gne]ID and password server

[Christopher Mahan]

Jimmy,

You did not upset me.

I understand the reasons for GNE not wanting anything to do with 
commercially-developed software, and that's up to them. All I am doing is 
engineering the implementation, doing the nitty-gritty of the back end. The 
best way for me to do that is to use the tools I am good with, and that's 
ASP.

I am not suggesting for a millisecond that GNE should be serverd with IIS 
and ASP.

All I'm looking to do is demo a working prototype and establish the basic 
functionalities.

I installed (from hd format) Linux, got apache & mod_perl working, made a 
couple of "hello world" perl scripts, got samba to work, and am hosting the 
non-scripted parts of the company intranet on that linux box, because apache 
is faster and for the 39.95 I paid for the CD, the price can't be beat.

So I am not adverse to Java/Perl/Linux at all, and I would rather it be done 
that way now, but since I can't: I don't; but I realize a port will have to 
be done in the future.  And I have even mentioned that in the past.

As far as it mattering or not, well, yes, it matters, but the coding itself 
is good experience and I'll use it on other things (like things I don't 
particularly enjoy but that help we pay the rent).


Chris Mahan

> From: Jimmy Wales <address@hidden>
>
> Hey, Chris, I didn't mean to upset you.
>
> You're free to write code on whatever platform you like.  It's really
> none of my business.
>
> I'm just saying -- and I'm sure this isn't controversial -- that GNE
> should not use non-free software in any way.  So unless ASP is easily
> portable to a free system, your work can't be re-used by the project.
>
> Maybe that doesn't matter to you, I don't know.
>
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