On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 04:25, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
Hopefully, at some point, most of the computing chain will be
free, including the hardware.
And who will fund such a development? How do you think the Linux kernel
is being developed so fast? If we wait for us geeks to come up with such
a
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:59, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
It is important to note some of Apple's contributions to the open
source community besides darwin.
Darwin was not developed by Apple. It's originally a project that was
developed on Intel machines. Apple took it on since it had an acceptable
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:19:21PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
My point exactly :-).
Just to add a bit onto this issue is that we could still support
non-opensource systems, but they would need to purchase the software
(see my other e-mail with the Trolltech as an example).
Dual licensing is a
Software would remain open-source. But the assumption is if you are
willing to part with the freedoms Linux and other GNU OS's offer, and
pay for a costlier system, as well as a bunch of shrink-wrapped apps,
then you might as well pay for the oss apps and help the oss community.
No one would
Do we want to _become_ what our competition is? I don't think so. I
don't like pushy tactics. We are (by some measure) successsfull
because
we are not like the competition.
Point well taken. However, as someone pointed out earlier, we need more
contributors to our community in order to have
Am Son, 2003-06-22 um 02.46 schrieb Tim Hockin:
In the end, we will not reap what we have sown. Users on the OS X will
be theoretically able to run Ardour as much as we will, especially now
that jackd has been ported to OS X. To me, this does not seem right.
I guess I don't see it as a
I wouldn't decline this idea so fast, i think he made a valid point.
If you watch todays software market, especially the battle between the
OSes, you can see Apple as well as M$ aquiring so-called
Killer-Applications which shall force people who need that Apps to
move to their OS. Especially
