"Andres L. Figari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought the whole point of open source was "for the people". > > I can use the netsaint comunity as an example. Their software has totally > decrease my work and customer support problems. I don't pay a dime. The > list is filled with friendly folk. I have yet to see this get disrupted. I > always try my best to help the community of netsaint users. An exemplary > display of great minds helping each other. > Think of these: > Java > Everything GNU > mailman > majordomo > apache > qmail > sendmail > bind > PERL > I can go on and on ... > > They make the web great. It would be so sad if the web server was all MS > and their sh**y products. I have nothing agains idaya, I found them to be > friendly, but I'm getting the impression that freeVSD will no longer be open > source in the near future. That is too bad. In that case I'll stick with > sphera and ensim.
It might be worth looking at the Red Hat (or formerly Cygnus Solutions) approach to development of the GNU C/C++ Compilers. Red Hat are major contributors to the GCC development, however they are still contracted by customers to develop optimisations or processor ports. After a period of one or two years these features are often integrated into the main GCC source tree for the whole community to benefit from. Idaya needs a source of income. They should deserve some returns for the work that they have input, otherwise they cannot afford to sponsor the project. Then the project dies completely. The only argument that I've seen so far on this topic is that the community is unhappy because Idaya is selling a piece of software which includes their own extensions and some minor contributions from the community on this list. So what ! If you don't like this, then why not request that your changes be removed from the source tree ? > I hope there is an open source alternative for multi-plexed OSs. There are already.. But can you be bothered to find it and work on it ? Or will you just wait for it to be delivered in shrink-wrapped form through your letterbox. These systems are inherently complex. If done properly, they take many man years of work. The systems are targetted at system administrators who know the ins and outs of their operating systems, not at end users. There isn't much cash to be made from administrators since they can usually figure out what they are doing wrong themselves. Nick. ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
