On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Hebrew & Linux from IBM?": > As usual mr. Dudi Goldman made some mistakes > > 2. Contrary to the belief - you CAN charge money for a GPL application > (provided that it comes with the source, and for a "reasonable amount"). Of > course you can once you got the software to copy it to the whole world, but > the main point is that you can charge for an application...
Yes. This is such a huge point that he got wrong, that I couldn't take anything else he wrote after that seriously... Another thing that struck me odd is the frame that mentioned that Linus said in that meeting, when asked about software copying in Israel, that he wouldn't expect differently from a country where innocent people are being shot. This looks a bit too much like the Linus quote that someone alleged here in September, to the point that it appears that Goldman's article is based on urban legends, rather than actual interviews. Do you mean to tell me that someone actually asked Linus, again, a specific question about software copying in Israel, and Linus repeated that silly answer? > Now - lets leave those 2 mistakes. one thing that I found a bit un-clear is > that IBM is making Linux to work perfectly with hebrew. Now - I know that IBM > helped with Mozilla and are translating Star Office - but calling those 2 > parts "making linux work with hebrew"? Don't get my wrong - The IBM work on > those 2 projects is very welcome to the IL linux community, but is there > something more that IBM didn't reveal and planning to reveal next month? These two projects are so important and so welcome, that for all I care they have earned the right to say that they are making linux work with Hebrew (it doesn't that they're the only people to do something in that area, however!) Of course, they should also fix the bugs they left in Mozilla's Hebrew support :) (just look at bugzilla under the "bidi" component). The article also mentioned that work on this is being done in IBM's Haifa Research Center. Is that correct? I was under the impression that the work was being supervised by IBM people from Tel-Aviv, and programming was done together with an external company... -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Nov 25 2001, 10 Kislev 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Tact: The ability to describe others as http://nadav.harel.org.il |they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
