[GEM Development] Re: gem-dev Digest, Vol 31, Issue 3

[Madcrow Maxwell]

> It's a very good idea to release another GEM distribution, especially
> one that could increase ease-of-use.  However, when you do so it will
> not be the OpenGEM distribution of FreeGEM.  It would be important to
> make that distinction, as (a) I would be unable to support it, and (b)
> the name 'OpenGEM' is going to be used by the company Opendawn.com for
> all its GEM releases.  These will include the release of OpenGEM 6 on
> the 19th of this month.


Whoa, so OpenGEM is going corporate or is comapny just shorthand for a
hacker co-op? BTW, is this why OpenGEM 6 development seems to have
been less community driven than 4 and 5?