Re: 1999 Swarm survey results: available online [extra bonus question!]

[William S. Shu]

>  3) The Swarm survey indicates that research users dominate industry
>     users by factor of thirty.  Whatever comprimises we (via the LGPL)
>     make for industry users, it doesn't seem to be making a
>     difference in terms of getting industry participation.


I know of some contemplating swarm from industry, and are in fact waiting
for the java front end (Swarm 2.0).  It seems pretty little makes sense in
industry without a currency symbol pre-fixed to it. (:-))  My suspicion is
that a java front-end reduces the (invisible?) cost of using Swarm; it just
might pay off to hold out a little longer.

>  4) We can arrange alternative licenses for groups that distribute
>     (e.g. sell) models, but can't afford to distribute the source code to
>     their models.


How close to the LGPL would this be? and how easy would it be to acquire?



                  ==================================
   Swarm-Support is for discussion of the technical details of the day
   to day usage of Swarm.  For list administration needs (esp.
   [un]subscribing), please send a message to <address@hidden>
   with "help" in the body of the message.