On Dec 29, 2007 8:53 PM, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/29/07, Edd Dumbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's all proprietary right now. Open sourcing is a possibility for the > > future, but it's not likely to happen in 2008. > > Is expectnation then more or less as proprietary as the software > powering Sourceforge, Launchpad, the Google or Yahoo! services? Fine > with me,
As stated by Edd _it is proprietary_ right now. > specially if it's good and by using it we might be helping > Edd getting a sustainable business model and eventually opensourcing > it. Shouldn't that be the other way around? First the product should be open and then Gnome should adopt it and help Edd with the business. > GUADEC organizers need to concentrate in the event organization and > the content and communication. This is complex enough. Developing > conference software is out of scope. The website itself shouldn't > bring much time nor hassle. While for sure the event organization is complex, Gnome is all about free software isn't it? Edd wrote: > if Expectnation > settles on a business model that will accommodate our code being open > sourced, we'd love to do that. I guess Gnome people would love it as well and probably use the service without any doubt. As Jeff said it would be akward (I would say a shame instead) to use non-Free software where Free software can be used. just my 0.02€ cheers -- Gian Mario Tagliaretti _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
