Boy, oh boy. Do I feel like a shmuck or something. I sort of “extracted” myself from the WiX community, basically just because I felt so bad about my apparent slovenliness with this whole tallow extensions thing. Well, yesterday I finally posted the license agreement to Microsoft, signed by myself (about October 2004) and by our company's techinical director - at the end of January 2005 (!!!!), many, many months after I fist spoke about my extensions! Hopefully the letter will arrive in the States soon.
When I wrote my previous post, I was quite determined to get the license agreement away on that very day, but alas, that was not to be. I took the license agreement to my manager to sign, and where he, at our previous discussion, seemed more than willing to sign it, I suddenly ran head-on into a brick wall, and got the “yes, but what do we get out of it”-response. I'm not a big fan of that, especially since I feel that for everything a profit-making company gets for free from the open source community, it can at least give a few crumbs back - much in the same way that Microsoft has been doing recently.
Anyway, this led to a whole new research-initiative about our involvement with the project and open source in general.The end-result, although long-overdue, I can happily to say was a signature from our Technical Director on the license agreement, and I could post it yesterday.
While I am still working with the WiX toolset every day, I have now “released myself” to participate in the WiX newsgroups again. I'm behind about 285 posts (at last count) so I better catch up sometime. See you all on the flipside. (Whatever that means).