On 3/7/07, Cesare Marilungo <cesare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I already tried to get them to release the source, but they said that > it is also part of a commercial product, so they couldn't do that. > Kind of odd for an academic project, I thought... > > -TimH > > Hi Tim, this is sad news. But not that odd. A lot of interesting projects developed inside universities are becoming commercial products. Especially in the dsp field. IIRC, the authors are from Italy. Can you confirm this?
I only know that one of the leading developers / researchers is at an Italian university. (serafini.thomas@xxxxxxxx)
If this is the case, there's a very high chance that they're from a public university. I believe that the results of a research developed inside a public university should be published as open source. But, again, nothing surprises me these days. :-(
It really bothers me that a piece of software would be released as freeware for the benefit of the general public, and yet the authors (_especially_ if it is connected with a university) seem to have no interest in truly benefitting the public by releasing as open source. As more and more developers see the light, the remaining hold-outs look more and more foolish, IMHO. :-) -TimH
