ANNOUNCE: Ice 2.0 released

[Marc Laukien]

> Interesting to see this blend of GPL and an alternative for
> closed-source software.
> 
> Not totally unrelated, I saw this in your web-site (Ice vs CORBA
> page):
> <QUOTE>
> No "Design by Committee" 
> Ice was designed by a small group of dedicated and highly experienced
> people.
> </QUOTE>
> 
> Am interested to know, what "percentage" (*) of the code in your CVS
> repository has been contributed by people other than the group
> mentioned in the quote above?  Obviously, you do not allow anonymous
> CVS write access.  Perhaps, one wishing to improve Ice (a freedom
> granted by GPL) and who does not work for ZeroC has to mail his/her
> improvements to your maintainers?
> 
> (*):  Percentage is a very nebulous term, I know.  For purposes of
> answering the question, maybe you could resort to the
> not-highly-meaningful number of LOC, and perhaps a word or two about
> how Ice benefited from it.

100% of the Ice source code has been developed by ZeroC employees.

Note that this does of course not apply for third-party code that is 
being used by Ice, such as BZIP2, Berkeley DB, OpenSSL, etc.

> 
> - Anand
> 
> PS:  Please feel free to set FU-Ts as appropriate.

What are FU-Ts?

-- Marc