On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Sumod K Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > @Mani : 1. Depends on the definition of mainstream, if it is servers we are > speaking of yes. Desktop: I am not sure, sure there have been large number > of deployments in Governments in Europe, India, Brazil etc. But still the > Desktop users are still tied with Microsoft. There is a good presence of > free&//open source software on Mobile platform, but that is not purely > GNU/Linux, per se.
> Defn agree with the title not being apt. We might need something of the sort > of Software Development Licensing and their feasibility > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process#Software_development_models, > we can't really use soft. dev. models since that kind of means something > else). But it is kind of a trivia, and nothing can be done about it. So I am > going to let it pass. In the Wikipedia article, they speak of "s/w product" ... this term applies to proprietary s/w only. Otherwise s/w is a form of knowledge. I think somebody should rectify it. All free s/w philosophies concern s/w requirements and more. So they correspond to classes of s/w development models (which may not be fully defined). FYI the concept of "public s/w" in its earlier draft forms permitted s/w to be a "product" and tried to approximate the concept of free s./w by some requirements for stakeholders. Then it was improved, and "public good" as they understand it amounts to conditions on the s/w development process. (I have an article on the earlier version at http://www.ilug-cal.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=36 or at iglug-cal.org ) As far as licensing is concerned, it has to be compatible with the development process and requirements in particular. It is another thing that foss developers do not document everything in general. In philosophical language, all this would be a semantic approach to foss philosophy. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
