Since Sun is a private commercial venture, if you apply that logic there would be no OOo at all. All INGOT material is Creative Commons licensed - just visit the website, anyone can use it without paying us anything. I have never made any secret of the fact that INGOTs is part of my company. Anyone can decide whether to take part or not but in the end, my belief is that anti-commercialism is at best naive. FLOSS would be absolutelty nowhere without commercial companies. If I can expand the company to employ more FLOSS people so they don't have to just do it all for love, I can't see any problem in that. I wonder if the people who make this complaint work for nothing in their main employment? If not, why expect me and others to?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:00:09 +1200 (NZST) To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [marketing-educ] Fwd: Re: [Marketing] Au Miniconf Quoting Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Just on the way back from Australia. I have just had approval from the > UK government for a grant to pay for the NEA booth in LA so we will have > an OOo and INGOT presence there. The link below gives a summary of the > e-stratey for schools in the UK. Its difficult to see how this will be > achievable without using Open Standards and Open Source solutions so now > that the Government is talking to us seriously about Open Source things > are definitely looking up. > http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/e-strategy/ > > Can't remember if I said, but the letter I sent on behalf of the > community about Microsoft sponsorship for specialist schools seems to > have worked. In principle there is agreement to count OOo as sponsorship > with the same value as the equivalent MS licences which means schools > using OOo will help trigger up to 500k dollars in additional funding. > Still a bit to go to finalise things but that letter was well worth > writing :-) > > I am extremely concerned that there needs to be a strong distinction between a private commercial venture such as theIngots and OpenOffice.org. theIngots, to me, does not follow the principles of openess that I would expect, of such a project. theIngots is a private, commercial operation that is copyrighting its material, and is there for private commercial gain. Secondly, I consider the quality of the theIngots material, at the moment, to be of such a poor quality that it would reflect badly on the rest of the community. Thanks, Ian Laurenson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
