Such a report requires a lot of work to be able to cover the whole world
accurately.
From looking at the Chinese section which is the region in the world
I'm most familiar with I wouldn't trust the other sections: only 1 local
GNU/Linux distribution is mentioned while China has at least 4
commercial distributions (CS2C being the one getting the highest level
of government funds in 2010 - Red Flag has IIRC only 7 devs working on
Linux desktop if not less this year), the described state of
penetration/usage is also not on par with the reality, and then a lot of
local factors are not even mentioned leading to erroneous problem
descriptions and conclusions (and the site of the Beijing LUG has been
bilingual until 2 months ago, when I had to remove the Chinese version
due to a DB upgrade issue - putting it back is on my todo list).
So overall quite disappointing on the only place I know.
Fred
On 12/25/2010 11:55 PM, Lefty wrote:
I agree. In fact, I'd like to see the full text of Mr. Stallman's essay on why
software should be free included as well, so that readers will not be misled in
any way, but will understand the full import of this distinction.
I especially enjoy the discussion of how software developers are grossly overpaid and
should be satisfied with making a "mere living" so as to recapture the joy of
accomplishment inherent in their work.
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On Dec 25, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Richard Stallman<r...@gnu.org> wrote:
Please do note that GNOME is a part of the GNU Project.
Describing it as "open source", while not false,
is partly misleading.
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