On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:22:11 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > So, it is software that helps to provide a service. That > piece of software is non-free. I think that matters. > > Whether the software runs as a one shot unix like > input/output filter, or it generates web pages, or it is daemonized > and > handles requests (like, say, an X Windows server), it is still a > computer program that runs and manipulated bits. If it is not free > software, it is like any other free to use closed source software. > > And having the major original pieceof software Ubuntu writes > being closed source matters, whether it is or is not a daemon. Free > software is not about it being free to use. It is about it being > free to modify and distribute. >
* Any particular reason why nobody from Debian or elsewhere has actually cribbed about RHN not being open source? * Leaving aside Launchpad, do you seriously believe that whenever someone writes a web application to provide a service to people, the author is obliged to spend time trying to package it as a general purpose software which can be reused by others for other kind of applications? - Sandip _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
