Ah, i did a CTRL+F for "open source" and it was mentioned once under BeWelcome. No results for "free software" or "OSS"
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:38, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < [email protected]> wrote: > Great :) let me know how it goes. > > And sorry, I misspoke - on the allthatiswrong-page it is thoroughly > described, I don't know if there is a specific page on opencouchsurfing. > > > > Ah, wow. Thanks. I'm definitely going to get behind this then [= > > > > Can you link me to the specific page on OpenCourSurfing where they > > describe > > how impractical it would be to make CouchSurfing free software? > > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:30, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> More reasons are at: > >> > http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/a-criticism-of-couchsurfing-and-review-of-alternatives/#problems > >> > >> On OpenCouchSurfing it is described how it isn't trivial to make > >> CouchSurfing free software. And after all, the only real advantage I > >> currently see over BeWelcome is the size of the community - which we can > >> all > >> help to change. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> "sarvōdaya" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> I can't decide to be happy or sad. On one hand, this is great, but on > >>> the > >>> other hand, CouchSurfing should be free software. IIRC, the only reason > >>> it > >>> isn't is because the people in charge are anarchists (which is great) > >>> *but* > >>> they are afraid of making their software free because it can then be > >>> exploited for profit. > >>> > >>> If anyone knows more, i'd love to know the details! > >>> > >>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:21, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < > >>> [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> I may be a little bit late to the party (to have it being used for the > >>>> conference), but for everyone of you over on CouchSurfing: > >>>> > >>>> BeWelcome is a free and open source alternative to that. It has way > >>>> fewer > >>>> members but a great design - which are both reasons you should really > >>>> check > >>>> it out at http://bewelcome.org > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Discuss mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >>>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> .sarvōdaya > >>> > >>> [𝄽#] The Silent Number > >>> http://thesilentnumber.me/ > >>> ☮♥Ⓐ > >>> > >> > > > > > > -- > > .sarvōdaya > > > > [𝄽#] The Silent Number > > http://thesilentnumber.me/ > > ☮♥Ⓐ > > > > > -- .sarvōdaya [𝄽#] The Silent Number http://thesilentnumber.me/ ☮♥Ⓐ
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