Call for Grant Proposals

[Peter Hansen]

Maurice Ling wrote:

> Then it will means that some projects may not be able to apply for this 
> grant if it is the requirement of the project to be proprietary due to 
> business strategy. What you are saying is that all projects should be 
> open sourced but that may not be the case. Either that or you are 
> indiscriminately lobbying for the cause of open source irregards of 
> whether companies are ready for it or not, and then discriminating 
> against companies who are not ready for it yet. Although I support open 
> source development and had personally donated my work to Sourceforge and 
> Biopython project, I will think that it is tyrannic to assume all work 
> must be open sourced.

"Tyrannic" is hardly an appropriate adjective to apply to this
situation, either in letter or spirit.  You are asking for money to be
*given* to you here... it's a privilege, not a right.

Anyway, I suspect I'm not alone (as one of the people who have made
a donation, however small) in feeling very uncomfortable with the
idea of much of that money being used to fund closed-source projects.

-Peter