Well the major distinction between a website and a local application is precisely that... where it runs.
Lets take OpenOffice... You download a copy and run it on your machine. You can choose to alter your copy and be the sole user of those changes You can publish your changes and once approved/merged into the trunk version, other people can benefit from it. ** The benefit of the improvements made takes a longer time (if ever) to reach the potential users. Lets take Joomla... You download a copy and run it on your webserver You can choose to alter your copy You can publish your changes but there again people will need to update their own copy. ** The benefit of the improvements made still takes a longer time (if ever) to reach the potential users. Lets take teachmate.org and reddit.com... You don't download anything unless you want to change it (or branch and start your own) Whoever have their published changes approved updates the final website directly. ** The benefit of the improvements reaches all the users upon approval. Lets imagine Google was doing it where you could download the source code of their website and suggest improvements to any aspect of it where the whole user base of Google would benefit from the changes. The distinction is probably too thin to justify a new term... "Open Source Website" already says enough. But new terms also carry with them loads of meaning and in the case of Reddit and Teachmate the meaning is: "the website, it's behavior and all aspects of it belongs to the community an is actively maintained by the community". Jean-Marc http://m2i3.com On Oct 28, 11:57 am, "Aaron Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jean-Marc (M2i3.com) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you should find another term than OpenSource since the website > > itself is OpenSource... > > > Its like an OpenWebsite > > > Jean-Marc > >http://m2i3.com/blog/jean-marc > > As someone who is also working on an open source website, I'd love to > hear your reasoning for suggesting a different term. Why does it > matter if it's a website or code which runs locally? > > -- > Aaron Turnerhttp://synfin.net/http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/- Pcap editing and > replay tools for Unix & Windows > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
