Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-10 Thread Helge Hafting
jmt wrote: Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I have seen are only said to be compatible with RedHat

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi again Thank you Goswin and Alexander for nice ideas. I will do something into these directions. About the idea below. Debian and more or less Linux has now been banned from my institution even if I have been able to solve a lot of peoples problems with it.

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-09 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 00:17, Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:19:44PM +0200 Francesco Pietra said: On Monday 08 May 2006 18:34, A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 15:46, Francesco Pietra wrote: However, there is scientific proprietary software from small

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-09 Thread hendrik
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:17:59AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you really believe that a business is set up for any other purpose than to make money? Some are. Some are not. Making money is a constraint -- the business that does not make

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-09 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:17:59AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you really believe that a business is set up for any other purpose than to make money? Some are. Some are not. Making

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread A J Stiles
On Friday 05 May 2006 06:53, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I

RE: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread Miller, Marc
Message- From: A J Stiles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:17 AM To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Commercial programs in Debian On Friday 05 May 2006 06:53, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:16:33AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: This is a most un-Debian-like thing to be doing. Instead of running non-Free software on Debian, we should be seeking to create real Free alternatives I would sure like to see a FOSS tool with the power of Gamess or Gaussian, or

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 08.05.2006 at 03:27 -0500, Miller, Marc wrote: The Debian way is to promote the availability of source code, but is that more important than worldwide adoption in general? The focus should be on capturing the audience first, and converting commercial ISVs to the open source model

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi again Thank you Goswin and Alexander for nice ideas. I will do something into these directions. About the idea below. Debian and more or less Linux has now been banned from my institution even if I have been able to solve a lot of peoples problems with it. Looking at a guy copying

Re: [SPAM] Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread Fielder George Dowding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, I agree with RMS on this point. He has pointed out that using the GPL (an not a license that permits a comercial entity to abscond with the code) superior free (yes, in both senses) _software_ (o/s, utilities, applications) makes for a better

commercial programs on debian

2006-05-08 Thread Michel Vergues
Hi, I'm agree with wour point of view. There is a lot of developpement to do on free software. but remember licences are for close market and to have captive user due to the data format, driver, no interoperative system this is the goal for commercial. Remember free will never tell that

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Monday 08 May 2006 17:19, A J Stiles wrote: The problem is, purchasing decisions are being made by people unqualified to make those decisions. That's true. In my country the public administration - including the university - is wasting public money (derived from taxation) in software that

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:46, Francesco Pietra wrote: However, there is scientific proprietary software from small softwarehouses that has decades of experience and development, is sold with accompanying source code, and solves problems that debian is quite far from solving. Again, don't ask me

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-08 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Monday 08 May 2006 18:34, A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 15:46, Francesco Pietra wrote: However, there is scientific proprietary software from small softwarehouses that has decades of experience and development, is sold with accompanying source code, and solves problems that

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-06 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Þann Föstudagur 5. maí 2006 08:32 skrifaði jmt: Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I have seen

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-06 Thread Francesco Pietra
. maí 2006 08:32 skrifaði jmt: Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I have seen are only said

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-06 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I have seen are only said to be compatible with RedHat and sometimes SuSe. Mind that most commercial programs

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-06 Thread Alexander Sieck
to setup some documentation about how good different commercial programs integrate with debian on: http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/ Since you are dealing with scientific/engineering applications, debian-science might als be appropriate: http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/ Last but not least

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I have

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-05 Thread jmt
Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I have seen are only said to be compatible with RedHat

Commercial programs in Debian

2006-05-04 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial programs I have seen are only said to be compatible with RedHat