Open Source Clean?

[Zuurbier, E. - AMSXE]

>I personally don't think distributing the source code will make people more
>confident in programming in Clean. And I think the single university nature
>of Clean is its best asset. It is what differentiates it from Haskell: it
>isn't developed by committee (thank god), and is being developed by a
single
>team with focused interests.

If Clean is ever to take off commercially, imagine what a potential
compiler distributor would do if he found out that the source code of the
compiler is public. I would scare away I think.

> Don't get me wrong: I would prefer a broader base for Clean, but the
public domain could as well be a killing app for Clean; killing in a
different sense :-).

Erik Zuurbier