Re: Open Source Software New Global Alliance - proposal

2008-05-08 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Darius, > > You seem to have missed the whole point of the Open Source Software > movement. Many people, myself included, have been working for years to > promote the use of "Free Software", and that means Free as in Speach, as > well

Re: Open Source Software New Global Alliance - proposal

2008-05-08 Thread Igor Stoppa
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:07 +, ext Darius Jack wrote: > > Developers of GNU open source software have been working hard for > years, working for the community and today, their job and work is made > commercial software product by others > and offered for more than 1 US$ on a market. > > So

Re: Open Source Software New Global Alliance - proposal

2008-05-08 Thread ed
Darius, You seem to have missed the whole point of the Open Source Software movement. Many people, myself included, have been working for years to promote the use of "Free Software", and that means Free as in Speach, as well as Free as in Beer. What that means is that after the software is publi

Re: Open Source Software New Global Alliance - proposal

2008-05-08 Thread Darius Jack
Hi,one way is to protect developers and their open source software products,another is to provide FSF with extra financing from embedded hardware manufactures, incorporating Linux based software solutions.In each case there is a need for calculations, assessment of open source software development

Re: Open Source Software New Global Alliance - proposal

2008-05-08 Thread David Bolter
How do we proceed? cheers, David Darius Jack wrote: > Hi, > > I contacted FSF and was contacted by FSF recently > and there is a growing demand for a new global alliance on open source > software. > As business of Linux based embedded hardware devices is already worth > billions $ > - WiFi APs,

Open Source Software New Global Alliance - proposal

2008-05-08 Thread Darius Jack
Hi,I contacted FSF and was contacted by FSF recentlyand there is a growing demand for a new global alliance on open source software.As business of Linux based embedded hardware devices is already worth billions $ - WiFi APs, routers, servers, GPS car navigation,car audio systemsdigital tv boxescont