+++ Gora Mohanty [23/06/08 22:11 +0530]: >Thank you for that nice summary. I am far from being a free-software >purist, and am quite willing to accept discussions of projects that are >in the process of being open-sourced, or even ones where people are >trying to convince a project to go open-source.
Actually, that makes me think of another possibility. What is a software/OS getting open source take a really long time to get open sourced? What if the promoter actually finally delivers a crippled product after promising the moon? What if the final decision reached by the promoter is a compromise between their need to be accepted by the FOSS community and the comfort zone that their executives need for their Imaginary Property? <notice>I am just theorizing below, and not suggesting that it is going to happen in this case. </notice> What if Sun decides that it will never open their X server and instead port the xorg code to their environment instead? What if for every bit of software in Solaris's environment that people would actually like to see opensourced, they simply port an equivalent already open sourced software, port it to their platform and release it as their "solution"? While that would still make their final OS 100% FOSS, it would be a mockery of their Open source efforts. Would you want such a software to be promoted on the list? In other words, when the future of the open source efforts of a closed source project is not certain and can possibly end with a less than admirable result, would you still spend years promoting it and ending up like an indignant fool at the end? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
