[pypy-svn] r3799 - pypy/trunk/doc/funding
lac at codespeak.net
lac at codespeak.net
Tue Apr 6 08:42:36 CEST 2004
Author: lac
Date: Tue Apr 6 08:42:36 2004
New Revision: 3799
Modified:
pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt
Log:
add IBM Zurich, and fix typos. Also, fiddle, fiddle, won't the woman ever stop?
Modified: pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt
==============================================================================
--- pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt (original)
+++ pypy/trunk/doc/funding/B3.impact.txt Tue Apr 6 08:42:36 2004
@@ -153,30 +153,34 @@
Python with greater speed will seamlessly improve the offerings of
those European companies who already develop using Python. Moreover,
-some companies resist using Python because of speed concerns. If
+many companies resist using Python because of speed concerns. If
execution speed, rather than development speed is of paramount
importance, then Python is currently not a very good language
-choice. A faster Python would thus have more appeal.
+choice. A faster Python would be appealing to such companies, perhaps
+appealing enough to motivate them to switch development languages.
+Already many companies are using Python for their scripting needs,
+indicating that the speed factor is very significant.
Strategic Impact of Open Source
================================
Open Source has now reached an installed application base sufficient to
become widely recognized as a viable business standard, especially in
-Europe. This has no doubt been aided by the proprietary alternatives being
-intellectual properties of large USA based companies and the growing
-awareness of the benefits that Open Source can provide. The European Union,
+Europe. This is in part because the proprietary alternatives are
+intellectual properties of large USA based companies, but also due to
+a growing awareness of the other benefits that Open Source can provide.
+The European Union,
comprising heterogeneous distinct regions with different availability
-of economic resources, is well positioned to take advantage of the open
-source momentum. One reason that Open Source is becoming so appealing is due
+of economic resources, is well positioned to take advantage of the Open
+Source momentum. One reason that Open Source is becoming so appealing is due
to its equal suitability for projects based on diverse capital budgets.
-Python is an Open Source, easy to learn, easy to use, programming
-language that is readily accessible to a broad user base, estimated at
-175,000 programmers world-wide, ranging from education establishments
-through government to commercial enterprises of all sizes. This
+Python is an easy to learn, easy to use, Open Source programming
+language. It is readily accessible to a broad user base, estimated at
+175,000 programmers world-wide, employed in education,
+government and commercial enterprises of all sizes. This
project aims at building upon the inherent strengths of Python to
-ensure its longevity in the commercial and research marketplace. This
+ensure its longevity in the commercial and research marketplaces. This
will maximize the return of the existing and future capital investment
in this technology and ensure Python's widespread acceptance as one of
the most cost-effective technology platforms available.
@@ -187,7 +191,7 @@
is its dependence upon proprietary closed source software, mostly made
in the United States. This is not only an issue of money being
spent in the United States is money that is not being spent here,
-although that affects matters as well. There are two more serious
+although that affect matters as well. There are two more serious
risks.
The first is a threat in the present. Any company which writes its
@@ -238,7 +242,7 @@
International Python community. Our success in that regard was more
fully spoken about in B3.1, International Standards, but suffice to
say that the only possible dimensions for this project is 'Europe
-wide' or 'World Wide'. We could not find the expertise needed in a
+Wide' or 'World Wide'. We could not find the expertise needed in a
single country, and nor could we attain international acceptance
without involving the top members of the Python community. Working at
a smaller (single-country) scale would only 'fork the project' -- make
@@ -265,14 +269,14 @@
This is an Open Source Project. Thus complicated issues involving
intellectual property do not arise. The knowledge produced
by this project, every deliverable, is listed at Dissemination Level
-Public. We are utterly committed to transparency and open dissemination,
+Public (PU). We are utterly committed to transparency and open dissemination,
and as such will have all of our code available for nightly downloads,
our papers freely available on the PyPy websites, and freely available
for other people to link to. All Consortium members will have signed
a consortium agreement, asserting that all code producing during the
PyPy STREP will be released under the MIT Open Source License, approved
by both the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation.
-The MIT license is here.
+The MIT license is here:
::
@@ -307,29 +311,33 @@
The consortium did consider using the GPL license for protection from a
commercial takeover. We regognise that there is some risk that the
-results of our project would be subject to an "embrace and extend"
+results of our project would be subject to an 'embrace and extend'
strategy or another form of hostile takeover, especially if the project
is a great success.
-However, we will not reach the adoption necessary for such a scenario to
-be likely unless we manage to get widespread adoption both within and
+However, the 'critical mass' which makes such a scenario
+likely is dependent upon our achieving widespread adoption both within and
outside the present Python community. Before we can get any adoption
outside the Python community, we have to win the hearts of people on the
inside. These people - especially the portal figures - have a strong
preference for MIT license models and lack enthusiasm for the GPL.
-Also, a takeover attempt is not necessarily successful and the Python
+Also, such a takeover attempt is not guranteed to be successful and the Python
world is probably more resilient to such tries than most other
communities, since it is more strongly integrated and collaboratively
focused than other comparable groups.
-Management of intellectual property consists of a posting the license on
-the website or wherever source code is available, and periodically
+Management of Intellectual Property
+====================================
+
+Management of the primary PyPy intellectual property, source code,
+consists of posting the license on
+the website, or wherever source code is available, and periodically
running a program, especially before software releases, to check that
the license is properly refered to from each file.
-The only other intellectual property which we will produce are
-scientific papers, talks, and the like. They will all be freely
+The only other intellectual properties which we will produce are
+scientific papers, talks, workshops, and the like. They will all be freely
available. Copyright shall rest in the authors, unless somebody
gives a paper to one of the scientific journals that keeps all
copyright to itself. In either case, no management is necessary.
@@ -399,7 +407,7 @@
Our first goal in exploitation will be to make PyPy the reference Python
language. Our market, then is all existing Python programmers.
-_Just how many are we?_
+*Just how many are we?*
It is always difficult to measure how many people are using a
programming language. Python is generally ranked the sixth most popular
@@ -418,7 +426,7 @@
Users Counter; you can see the current count by visiting
http://www.wszechnica.safenet.pl/cgi-bin/checkpythonuserscounter.py
- Jacek's counter has more than 43 000 registered users.
+ Jacek's counter has more than 43,000 registered users.
Googling for 'python programming' gives 3,020,000 hits. ('Python' gives
ten million, but many of those Pythons are probably actual reptiles.)
@@ -430,8 +438,8 @@
as Haskell, OCaml, Smalltalk, ADA, Ruby etc.
Some statistics from python.org may be relevant. There were 47,751
-Python 2.3 downloads in the first 10 days of September. These are the
-'bleeding edge' developers, who were interested in the new release of
+Python 2.3 downloads in the first 10 days of September 2003. These are the
+**bleeding edge** developers, who were interested in the new release of
Python first made available at the end of August. At the other end of
the spectrum, there are many more who wait for Python to become
available as a Red Hat, or Debian package, or simply use the version
@@ -444,7 +452,7 @@
this point, and has been rising steadily from about 250,000 this time
last year.
-Converting this into an actual estimate of number of users is a difficult,
+Converting this into an actual estimate of number of users is difficult,
because:
1) One user may use multiple machines (e.g. home & work & cafe)
@@ -527,7 +535,7 @@
The results of the PyPy project are also expected to be utilized by
established industrial users. We have expressions of interest from
*Bang and Olufsen*, the Danish manufacturer of high-end stereo
-equipment, *Vodaphone* and *Ericsson* the mobile industrialists,
+equipment, * The IBM Zurich Resarch lab*, *Vodaphone* and *Ericsson* the mobile industrialists,
*Siemens*, the German conglomerate, and *Axis* the Swedish-based
multinational market leader in in-house developed chip technology for
network video and print servers.
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