Free software itself is not mentioned but all the text on: "Problems with CouchSurfing - Fraud and illegal behavior - The Verification Scam - Privacy Concerns - References and the lack of a dispute resolution process - Censorship"
is pretty clear. It would be time wasted to open source that, let alone build a free software project on that base. > 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "sarvÅdaya" <[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 >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> .sarvÅdaya >> >>> >> >>> [ð½#] The Silent Number >> >>> http://thesilentnumber.me/ >> >>> â®â¥â¶ >> >>> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > .sarvÅdaya >> > >> > [ð½#] The Silent Number >> > http://thesilentnumber.me/ >> > â®â¥â¶ >> > >> >> >> > > > -- > .sarvÅdaya > > [ð½#] The Silent Number > http://thesilentnumber.me/ > â®â¥â¶ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
