On 2002 January? 17 ,Thursday 08:34, Ira Abramov wrote: > great, but that's because she's a very nice person. did you try that > with Shareware? are you sure a commercial product would not have gotten > the same level of attention? and OTOH, have you never seen rude replies > from OSS developers that would tell you "you have the source, patch it > yourself, I'm busy"? because sometimes this oss if their life, or spend a LOT of time on it. much more then a payed job.
> > I believe the moral of this story is something along the lines of ESR's > > the Cathedral and the Bazaar or Muli's "what Linux is to me" Haifux' > C&B is a heap of bull, excuse me. I think that GPL is not the best and is a virus so what. (tzafrir's mail, one level up) > > By working in an OSS Ms. Milana and I were able to add a new > > feature, just by Using the Source<tm>. Can you do it in MS-Windows > > with the same technical and legal ease? I highly doubt it. I had problems when translating windows commander to hebrew, and I switched with the author code (Delphi and C if you want to know), just to make the menus look more hebrew, rtl. Now I have a bidi problems with this product and I will start exchanging betas and code with crithyan. > So how DO you make OSS work financially? take the "donation to society" > concept one step forward, call it a a social donation by law and award > those individuals from the taxpayers' money. when you want to judge a > Redmond monopoly to do "Avodot Sherut Lakehila", you make them develop > an app the community needs, dictate the specs and make them finance > development and QA. you can't make them open existing source > retroactively because of the messy patent laws, but donating new OSS is > not such a bad idea, and not too utopic or idealistic. I think I already > saw a few days ago an article in /. about legal standartization of > public-funded development to be released to the public who funded > it. Think about it... MS did this in Spain. They donated a lot free licenses to schools and universities. On the other hand, in Argentina someone once wanted to pass a law which obligates all governments departments to use only open software (it's cheap). On the otherother hand (I am ra'ma the indian linux god), we could all have free pop3 mail if ms would sign the other contract they wanted to sign with nezeq. - diego -- You need tender loving care once a week - so that I can slap you into shape. - Ellyn Mustard ================================================================= 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]
