Hi all, (Let me know if this is not the right place to discuss this.)
Wikipedia is mentioned as web service matching the Open Software Service Definition -- it's actually the only example of an OSS. Given the broad definition of the OSSD, this is correct... but a bit counterintuitive IMHO. 1) This broad definition does not match that of the FSF: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html "Software as a Service (SaaS) means that someone sets up a network server that does certain computing tasks—running spreadsheets, word processing, translating text into another language, etc." Note that the central notion here is "computing tasks". If there is no computing (that you would normally do on your computer) then this is not SaaS by the FSF definition. 2) If opendefinition sticks to this broad definition, maybe OD could add another more intuitive example such as Kune? http://kune.ourproject.org/faq/ Kune is using the (now free) Wave protocol to implement an interface similar to the not-yet-free rizzoma.com and AFAIK matches OSSD. What do you think? -- Bastien _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
