Archive for April 2006
VBPro goes open-source
Mark Miller has decided to make VBPro open-source, under the Gnu Public License. VBPro is a classic computer content analysis program and a de facto standard in the field, so it’s great for the scientific replication standard to have the algorithms available. But it’s also great to have a code base that can be updated (VBPro runs only in DOS), enhanced, and ported to other operating systems.
VBPro was always free, but I’m proud to have been part of the crowd presenting the arguments for making it open too. And I’ll be helping Mark sort of the licensing and hosting arrangments for VBPro’s new life. Frankly, I’m pretty excited about the whole thing.
