On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:10:52PM +0800, Soh Kam Yung wrote: > [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/29/nation/4941247&sec=nation] > > ===== > Open Source philosophy fosters environments where people readily > exchange knowledge and willingly share innovations as a way to develop > skills for the betterment of humankind.
this is the best description of open source and free software that i have ever seen. although i would not reduce it to a way to "develop skills" for the betterment of humankind, but describe it as a way to directly _contribute to_ the betterment of humankind. man has been created to carry forward an ever advancing civilization. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix searching contract jobs: programming, training and administration - anywhere -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org open-steam.org unix sysadmin iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at caudium.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
