Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ubuntu, while its license policy is somewhat less strict than the DFSG, > is not drifting into closed-source software. It's virtually unchanged > since the project's inception.
The policy and development may be virtually unchanged since the project's inception since I have no idea how many other closed-source components such as Launchpad you've been working on from the beginning, but at least the public face is drifting as those projects are deployed and become part of the day-to-day work on Ubuntu. And hey, as I said, if that's what you want to do, more power to you. I'm well aware that many in the free software community are quite happy to use closed-source and/or commercial infrastructure toolsets and services. The advertising deluge that drowns me every time I try to look at Sourceforge is a good reminder of that. :) However, the more that you deploy and depend on closed-source tools, the less interesting Ubuntu is to me personally. (It's quite likely that you don't care, and that's fine. I don't really expect you to.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]