Re: The Swarm space (was RePast (another agent toolkit) released)

[Miles Parker]

Miles T. Parker
Software Engineer
The Brookings Institution  1775 Mass. Ave. NW  Washington, DC  20036
http://www.brook.edu/es/dynamics/models/ascape
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>>> Marcus G. Daniels <address@hidden> 01/31/00 08:27PM >>>
>>>>> "MP" == Miles Parker <address@hidden> writes:

>>So I think it's potentially misleading to call this "bias", as it is a
reasonable thing for that community to do given the goal of making
freely redistributable, flexible, and technically-strong software.

Agreed, I stand corrected, or at least should clarify. One definition of bias 
might imply an irrational uninformed proclviity towards a particular point of 
view, whereas another might simply reflect a different weighing of values and 
goals. I think a lot of Linux folks fall into the first category [there is a 
lot of irrational bias against Java on /., for instance :-)], while most Swarm 
denizens seem to fall into the second. In other words, I think its clear that 
there is a definite free-software 'bias' in the swarm community, and I don't 
fundamentally have a problem with that, in fact I respect it a lot. My 
satirical response was that I'm more of a sell-out and have a somewhat more 
positive attitude towards the commerial world (but I won't use MS development 
products; I have some standards!)

-Miles





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