On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:42, Ben Finney said: > Can you give some references to read more on these unfortunate > connections that Berlios has?
I would need to research that myself again. Out of of the top of my head: If you look at the Berlios website you notice the a logo at the right top. It gets you to the FOKUS site. FOKUS used to be a project of the GMD (Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung - a highly renowned German IT research institute). It has been taken over by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in 2000. At about the same time (or due to this) Berlios was founded to get new funds for the outrunning funding of the FOKUS project. Mr. Schilling has been working for the FOKUS project for a long time and along with Mr. Henckel he convinced the Ministry of Economics to fund a developer portal like Sourceforge. Actually a very good idea and something we have proposed in the EU Report on Libre Software as an immediate way to support the development of Free Software. However the way they implemented it was not very convincing to the community (IIRC, they suggested not to use the GPL and such). Later when the governmental funding ran out, Berlios was forced to sustain themself and as a result it now seems to be a kind business portal on how to get in touch with "open source". Salam-Shalom, Werner _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
