David Johnson scripsit:
> It is never a good idea to twist the English language to
> fit your political or social goals.
Until about 1810, "democracy" meant essentially "mob rule". Then the
word got "twisted" to fit a political goal.
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John Cowan [EMAIL PROT
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Tom Hull wrote:
> As for the word 'proprietary', it's hard to think of a better term.
> PP can only be based on proprietary rights; !PP may technically be
> someone's property, but that someone has chosen to forego various
> options that only property holders have, and as suc
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, W. Yip wrote:
> At the risk of nit-picking:
>
> I wish to make a probably novel suggestion that the Open Source Community
> replace the word 'proprietary' with the word 'commodity' in our literature.
"Commodity" is just as bad as "proprietary". It means something that is
sol
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Mark Koek wrote:
> The interesting question is about the modifications they might make. If
> they have enhanced the GIMP, to get an 'edge' over a competitor who is
> doing the same, should they make their modifications available?
What is the difference between serving out GI
'proprietary software' in the history of the vernacular is underpinning software that
users expanded into and over which they
had no control of the development platform. When I make my WinGrid source code
available it is because I don't wish anyone to
find themselves in a box canyon, as I did wi
W. Yip wrote:
>
> At the risk of nit-picking:
>
> I wish to make a probably novel suggestion that the Open Source Community
> replace the word 'proprietary' with the word 'commodity' in our literature.
For the same of argument, let's call 'the software formerly known as
proprietary' PP, and its
At the risk of nit-picking:
I wish to make a probably novel suggestion that the Open Source Community
replace the word 'proprietary' with the word 'commodity' in our literature.
The word 'proprietary' is often used in context of with those software
released under restrictive licenses (eg. M$).
David Johnson wrote:
[...]
> To play devil's advocate here, consider the following real life
> situation. Someone installs GIMP on a server, writes an HTML front end.
> Users can log on and for $1 create a personalized web banner. Should
> the server operator have a legal obligation to provide the
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