On 25/02/2004, at 11:29 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
What... you want to grind their noses into it?
Not in the least !
Not at all - I thought about a notice as some fair enough free publicity for the ASF and as education (as Dirk-Willem mentions). There's a lot of talk and misconceptions in the press about open source around here these days, so public ways of raising awareness about what the ASF is doing are good IMHO.
Having some sort of visibility of
-> that open source is used.
-> licenses are policed
is incredibly positive for open source in general and for us in particular. Esp. when it is near
tax systems or other govt. infrastructure Lets not forget that until recently in most countries
it was virtually impossible to use any open source for Govt. project. A lot of EU govts. followed
an EC directive which simply forbade the use of Open Source or free variant if a viable
proprietary/commercial alternative was available.
Dw
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