comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6

Home » Public Forums » archive » some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 [message #94092 is a reply to message #94088]

Tue, 17 January 2017 05:55

Patrick Broos
Messages: 27
Registered: December 1996

Junior Member

Superchromix, thank you for raising this issue in your institution. I also have invested man-years of labor developing a large IDL application that is distributed to users (both in our department and at dozens of other institutions). The most natural workflow for this application involves multiple IDL sessions---50 or more for some projects. I never dreamed that the fundamental licensing rules, in place for 25 years or more, would be so radically changed.

I will attempt to conduct my own science projects using IDL 8.5.1 until I retire. However, the users of my application at other institutions will often have no control over the version of IDL provided at their institution.

This change in the language, without community input, is fodder for those who advocate "open source" languages (e.g. Python) and criticize commercial languages (e.g. IDL). No doubt, Harris Corp. knows their market far better than I do, but I just don't see how this helps them preserve or expand their customer base.

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Patrick Broos on Wed, 11 January 2017 15:49
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: wlandsman on Thu, 12 January 2017 09:15
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 12 January 2017 21:03
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Alain Kattnig on Fri, 13 January 2017 00:05
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Patrick Broos on Fri, 13 January 2017 07:37
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Bill Nel on Fri, 13 January 2017 07:09
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Martin Satter on Fri, 13 January 2017 09:49
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 13 January 2017 10:27
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 13 January 2017 10:36
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 13 January 2017 10:38
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: markb77 on Mon, 16 January 2017 04:56
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: markb77 on Tue, 17 January 2017 02:10
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: markb77 on Tue, 17 January 2017 02:14
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Patrick Broos on Tue, 17 January 2017 05:55
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 17 January 2017 08:00
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 19 January 2017 00:41
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: markb77 on Thu, 19 January 2017 00:55
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 19 January 2017 01:09
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: wallabadah on Thu, 19 January 2017 14:24
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 19 January 2017 14:27
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 19 January 2017 14:39
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: markb77 on Tue, 17 January 2017 04:25
		Re: some users will be harmed by the new licensing policy in IDL 8.6 By: Alain Kattnig on Tue, 17 January 2017 04:58

Previous Topic:	How to run correl_optimize IDL code
Next Topic:	Looping through arrays

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Oct 08 20:06:04 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 1.10642 seconds