RE: autoconf upgrade problem

2008-05-02 Thread josh.soref
Kwan Hong Lee wrote: What do I have to do for autogen to use the latest autoconf I installed? Probably depends on your environment. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Mar 31 08:52 /scratchbox/tools/bin/autoconf - sb_autoconf_wrapper -- if ($force eq '2.13') { ac213 (); }

Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
Hi, On the back of my post, maemo.org: what next?[1], it was interesting to read in yesterday's LWN that the community around OpenSolaris feels very much shut out of internal Sun development processes: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/280452/8f5b64d861d8f79e/ Reading this, it was very striking

Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-02 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Hello Andrew, I found your post very interesting. The moost apealing idea I find is the community maintained hackkers edition. did the maemo people do anything wrong in that aspect? I don't really see what there is to learn from what SUN is doing. What I see is a platform that has grown and that

Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Kees Jongenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Andrew, I found your post very interesting. Thank you :-) The moost apealing idea I find is the community maintained hackkers edition. did the maemo people do anything wrong in that aspect? I think so. For

Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-02 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hi, On the back of my post, maemo.org: what next?[1], it was interesting to read in yesterday's LWN that the community around OpenSolaris feels very much shut out of internal Sun development processes: I am seeing a lot of discussions around this at the moment. I really like this post

Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-02 Thread Kees Jongenburger
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ian Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own *personal* opinion is that we either need to be open or not. If open, then open, let us root around in the guts of the source and let go. If closed. close it and put the beast out of its misery. My fear is that it