Thierry wrote:
Le 19 oct. 09 à 18:48, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
Richard Gaskin wrote:
I'm putting together some notes for an article at revJournal.com on
open source projects done with Rev.
If you're working on complete applications or even just components
for the Rev community, let's use the pages at revJournal.com to help
raise the visibility of your efforts.
Please reply off-list to me at: ambassa...@fourthworld.com
Kindly include a brief description of your project, URL to its home
page, and please note which FOSS license the project uses.
Thanks -
Pardon my goofiness, but as far as In understand an Open Source
project is not
possble using RunRev because RunRev is itself proprietary.
I ran up against this several years ago when I offered 2 programs of
mine to
Ubuntu, who, to put it nicely, got "all hoity-toity" because the
source code
was not completely open.
Hi Richmond,
The Ubuntu software repository is divided into four components - main,
restricted, universe and multiverse - on the basis of our ability to
support that software, and whether or not it meets the goals laid out
in our Free Software Philosophy.
Read more here :
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components
My 2 cents
Thank you, Thierry; I have read all that stuff a while ago; and almost
fell asleep
because it was so boring.
In my youth I was a fanatic, shouting for various 'pure' causes from
various rooftops:
had I come across it sooner the Free Software Philosophy might have been
one of them.
However, age and experience has shown me that dividing things up into
hard-and-fast
black/white categories is, ultimately counter-productive.
As far as I recall, my reply to the Ubuntu people (to whom I had offered
2 reasonable
programs about the phonemes of English) was something like "boil your
heads".
I am, after all, a great fan of Open Source software, whose computers
almost exclusively
use Open Source applications; all feeding into work I do using Runtime
Revolution, which
I love, and is far from Open Source.
Now if I come 'bearing gifts" the old adage; "Don't look a gift-horse in
the mouth" should
hold good. Feel free to, politely say "No Thanks", but not to get all
high-and-mighty with
some 'pure' Philosophy, because pure philosophies are like anything,
when pressed
against the wall (pushed to their reductio ad absurdam) the pips,
inevitably, squeak.
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As far as I am concerned, Richard made a small mistake in using the term
"Open Source"
when he might have been better to use "Given Away Free" in its place.
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