On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Gordan Bobic <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 09/06/2012 15:01, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Gordan Bobic <[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>
>>    9 months ago it would have been a big undertaking. Today it would
>>    not be a big undertaking at all. All the hard work has already been
>>    done in RedSleeve (http://www.redsleeve.org). So you could just
>>    treat RS as the upstream until PNAELV pull their figure out and
>>    release their own. Or (my personal preference for obvious reasons
>>    (hint - I'm one of the three people behind RS) you could just use RS
>>    - let's face it, it's all the same thing.
>>
>> Color me *impressed*. That's a big chunk of work. Go, you and your
>> comrades! And what a win for the freeware and open source
>> communities. Have you called our favorite upstream vendor about a job
>> doing this? You could refute my original idea that they wouldn't bother,
>> and get paid for it!!!
>>
>
> I doubt I'm very popular with them for creating a situation where the
> clone beat the upstream to a port. :)
>
> Gordan
>

I sincerely doubt you're unpopular: they're deeply involved in the freeware
and open source worlds, and they play pretty nicely with freeware
publishers. Since you're following the rules and playing nicely, and many
if not all of their personnel are very clear in their support of freeware
and open source tools.