Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Steve and I discussed his problems with QTest, a closed-source…
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Steve and I discussed his problems with QTest, a closed-source program he uses in his research. He's given the developers so many and such difficult-to-resolve bug reports that they have now given him access to the source code ("Here, you fix it," as Steve noted). I pointed out that this implies that the developers trust Steve not to steal the code and distribute it or repackage it in a new commercial distribution (STest?). Steve enjoyed my suggestion. "Quantum chemistry software for the masses!" he exclaimed.
