(This thread has changed its subject so I changed the subject line)
Dear all,
As he knows, I agree with Peter about the desirability of open-source applications and open-access data, and about _de gustibus_, of course! But I agree with Andrew that standards-based work (and even sub-standard work! :-)) on the part of editors and projects allows subsequent leveraging by the same party, or by third parties into elegant or less elegant wrappers that can have their own (sub)set of functions for a particular subset of people. I suppose that is my apology for taking an interest in re-packaging Perseus texts in a different environment, and more recently, in looking into iOS and Android applications.
I would say, or rather plead with members of this group, that work-in-progress into which no community, only a single person's, resources were poured, and about which we don't know where they could/would have gone or any other backstory, should not be held up to the same level of opprobrium in a public forum as should projects presented as finished, projects maintaining a de facto monopoly, projects taking private and public funding, and projects charging their users. In other words, let's please reserve the harsh criticism for the Broadway musicals, not the previews or the first read-through.
All best,
Helma
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