Hi Agnela:
Angela Kahealani wrote:
ALL distributions are required by the GPL to publish their source code,
therefore, all you have to do is get the RedHat/Fedora source code to
get the most advanced set of code that's closest to doing what you
want, hack it to your requirements, and make your changes available...
welcome to the wonderful world of Open Source Software!
Exactly. For example, Fedora Core has the best packages for
OpenOffice.org, but I always have problems with RPMs from rawhide. So
what would I do? Easy. Just copy their spec files, do the necessary
modifications, and wrap my own rpms.
To me, Open Source Software also means open-mindedness. Recently, the
entire so-called opensource community seems to be crying bloody murder
for Sun's agreement to pay some 90 million dollars to Kodak for settling
a patent infringement suit.
Most of the message posters never seem willing to read the fact that,
just days prior, the jury held that Sun has infringement Kodak's patents
(which were acquired from Wang during Wang's bankruptcy proceeding) and
was facing a potential damage of more than one billion dollars. Also,
the three patents at issue were either expired or are about to expire
VERY soon. Not challenging the validity of these patents (as the
"community" would want Sun to do) has no effect on the further
development of Java.
BTW (plse forgive me for speaking so bluntly), as a professional psychic
reader, you probably do not have the kind of formal comsci training as
many in this board do. But you are definitely very conversant in the
Linux language--running your own web server and actively participating
in the development of Fedora desktops, etc. I believe--again please
forgive me for using you as an example--this gives a undeniable
testimony as to how a well-structured community such as Fedora can help
a person excel in computing skills. Perhaps you could give a seminar
and I'm sure many of us will benefit from learning from your exciting
journey. wayne
