From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4911 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dusko Pavlovic Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: patenting colimits? Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:57:19 -0700 Message-ID: Reply-To: Dusko Pavlovic NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243873526 20219 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2009 16:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:25:26 +0000 (UTC) To: Zinovy Diskin , Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon Jun 01 18:25:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MBAKA-00052x-2I for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:25:22 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MB9h5-00044G-35 for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:44:59 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4911 Archived-At: [sorry, i just noticed this] On May 26, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Zinovy Diskin wrote: > impressive examples, such as the extremely successful Eclipse project > http://www.eclipse.org, (btw, Eclipse is partly based on categorical > ideas that engineers developed/reinvented from scratch). i designed two tools which people who built them built on top of eclipse, and i must admint that i managed to completely miss those categorical ideas. eclipse is very handy, but some simple class hierarchies often become unrecognizable in its straitjacket. i am probably not the only one who would be curious to learn more about category theory behind eclipse :) > Another > example is the use of open source software for commercial products by > such giants as IBM. i hope that you are right that it is a good thing that IBM supports the open source. i also hope that it is a good thing that Exxon, Chevron and BP support the alternative sources of energy, and that Philip Morris supports the teen culture. -- dusko [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]