Hi,
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:47:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "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
> > kin
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.
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
a
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:17:59AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
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> > Do you really believe that a business is set up for any other purpose
> > than to make money?
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> Some are. Some are n
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:17:59AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
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> 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
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
> >
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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
> > > softwareh
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 th
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
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 04:46:29PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> That's true. In my country the public administration - including the
> university - is wasting public money (derived from taxation) in software that
> is found with debian, sometimes of better quality. They could better make
> d
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 tha
On Monday 08 May 2006 09:27, "Miller, Marc" wrote:
> You're both right...
>
> Of course we want to promote free software, but without compatibility
> with commercial applications, many solution stacks are missing key
> components. That excludes Debian in an area where SUSE and Red Hat are
> proud
On Monday 08 May 2006 10:37, Dave Ewart wrote:
> 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, a
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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 worl
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 p
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 mod
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
ginal Message-
From: A J Stiles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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
"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
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:07:36AM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
...
>Can we agree on that companies are run by different strategies and the
> more
> programs that run flawlessly on Debian, the more likelyhood there is of
> people using it? If the answer is yes, then please advice me to
I wish every package was like the one described below. I am not in the
business of advertising the commercial programs I mentioned. I am in the
business of advertising Debian and Linux because these named programs work
more or less flawlessly most of the time on Debian although there are several
I can illustrate my experience with commercial packages for quantum mechanical
and quantum chemical calculations. There is at least one package for quantum
mechanical calculations (don't ask me the name as i am not advertising) that
is accurate, solves all problems of file type conversion, provi
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 hav
>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
> and
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