Actually, I was under the impression that the stack exchange software (which drives stack overflow and askubuntu and others) is Free Software, albeit on a Windows and C# platform.
-- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs Please excuse any top posting, typographical or gramatical errors and brevity, as this message has been written on my mobile device On 18 Nov 2010 16:30, "Alan Bell" <alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote: On 18/11/10 16:16, Sean Miller wrote: > > I do not actually agree with this, for the record. I thin... it stands for Libre meaning freedom as opposed to the other sort of free which is means cheaper than cheap. That is the important meaning of Free, just in English the two meanings are expressed with one word, which is a bit unfortunate. The Liberty side of Free is what it is all about and that is where you will find the real business value of the software we are talking about. Personally I am not that fussed about making a Free platform for proprietary software developers to develop for. They can by all means do so if they want to, but it is their loss if they don't. I don't want to actively discourage proprietary vendors from targeting Ubuntu but I think the point in this instance is that there are loads of Free as in Liberty projects that do web forum answer tracking things and it might well be better to use one of them, improving it where necessary and contributing back the improvements. That said, askubuntu.com (proprietary platform that it is) seems to be doing a pretty good job in this area. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales #05868943. VAT Registration #GB 901 4715 55 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ub...
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