http://code.google.com/oss.html
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Not all of it, of course.
J
On 27/10/2007, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 09:27 +0100 25/10/07, Frank Wales wrote:
How about Google? It's not directly open-source, but it's
built on top of
Gordon Joly wrote:
How about Google? It's not directly open-source, but it's
built on top of Linux, which is.
I can't see Google releasing their source code, or their search
algorithms...
My point was that Linux is widely used as an enabling technology
in things that are ostensibly more
At 09:27 +0100 25/10/07, Frank Wales wrote:
How about Google? It's not directly open-source, but it's
built on top of Linux, which is.
Frank,
I can't see Google releasing their source code, or their search algorithms...
Gordo
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On 27/10/2007, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Media Wiki (it's not just for Wikipedia)
I know. I run at least four wikis using Mediawiki
Gordo
Out of interest, why did you choose MediaWiki out of all the Wiki engines
out there? Recently I've been looking at Wiki technology,
David,
my apologies as it seems that once again my comments lack some clarity.
where are the easy-to-use tools?
Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream...
the most significant issue is that no open source project outside
possibly wikipedia is truly popular.
NB wikipedia is not an application
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:34:05AM +0100,
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David,
my apologies as it seems that once again my comments lack some clarity.
where are the easy-to-use tools?
Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream...
You seem very confused. Easy to
~:'' wrote:
David,
my apologies as it seems that once again my comments lack some clarity.
where are the easy-to-use tools?
Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream...
the most significant issue is that no open source project outside
possibly wikipedia is truly popular.
NB
~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote:
where are the easy-to-use tools?
Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream...
By 'mainstream', do you mean 'commonplace among computer users'
or 'commonplace among the general public'?
Also, are you conceding that Ubuntu and Gnome are easy to use?
the most significant
For a given value of popular of course. There are many open source projects
which are extremely popular in their own contexts.
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~:'' wrote:
where are the easy-to-use tools?
Ubuntu and Gnome are hardly mainstream...
the most significant issue is that no open source project outside
possibly wikipedia is truly popular.
NB wikipedia is not an application or tool.
First, there are thousands of open source
On 25/10/2007, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David,
the most significant issue is that no open source project outside
possibly wikipedia is truly popular.
NB wikipedia is not an application or tool.
That would explain the unpopularity of a LAMP development envionment then
On Thursday 25 October 2007 08:34, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 wrote:
the most significant issue is that no open source project outside
possibly wikipedia is truly popular.
I'd hardly say that the internet, email, web, DNS etc are hardly not
mainstream and not popular. It's next to impossible to use
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071021231933899
Maybe of interest?
Mark Taylor: My first personal, emotional reaction was frankly, I was stunned.
And it's back to this 'Auntie' analogy. As I said before, the perception of the
BBC from childhood right up to adulthood is 'Everybody's
Ian,
the unfortunate fact is that open source is not above or beyond this
type of controversy.
ie who funds the developers?
who are they developing for?
in many cases developers:
have little or no understanding of a 'public' audience.
actively refrain from user testing.
encourage feature
Quick aside: you appear to have a very interesting UTF-8-encoded From name
string:
From: =?UTF-8?B?In46Jycg44GC44KK44GM44Go44GG44GU44GW44GE44G+44GX44Gf?=
=?UTF-8?B?44CCIg==?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... which actually expands to (what appear to be) a number of interesting
chinese glyphs! This may
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