On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:16, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > On 3/16/06, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've also made some slight revisions to show the names of the Filipinos > > involved in their respective FOSS projects. > > > > If there are more FOSS projects that you know that are made by our own > > folks, or having Filipinos involved in maintainance and development, > > please don't hesitate to have them announced in the PLUG Filipino-made > > FOSS Index[1] > > Nice... I shared it to Pinoy Tech Blog, and I got this response: > http://www.technopinoy.com/?p=52 > > Not enough innovation?
I'd just let him rant on his narrow perception of "innovation". My comments: a) Some of the FOSS projects we could see in that site do represent a couple of firsts in implementation, e.g. phpMyLibrary was the first open source electronic library system to have export to MARC21 functionality (Koha followed suit afterwards), iptraf was one of the first Pinoy FOSS software to be included as part of the mainstream distros, chix afaik is the only FOSS implementation of Chikka's protocol, and it integrates with GAIM. b) Other software indicated there have proven their use by many people already in the past and/or have garnered awards for showing innovativeness, e.g. iptraf, CHITS, Joomla for instance. It just so happened that his idea of innovation doesn't jive with other people's notions. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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