Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: A reminder on terminology

2009-09-04 Thread Frank Warmerdam
René A. Enguehard wrote: If you want to be even more granular, you can say "closed source software" as well. There does exist software which has a closed source but is not directly proprietary. For instance, parts of the QNX kernel code are not shown with the standard source code and to be able

[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: A reminder on terminology

2009-09-04 Thread René A. Enguehard
If you want to be even more granular, you can say "closed source software" as well. There does exist software which has a closed source but is not directly proprietary. For instance, parts of the QNX kernel code are not shown with the standard source code and to be able to view them you must si

A reminder on terminology (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers)

2009-09-04 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
Folks, just a little reminder that we should be careful in terminology (because it came up in this thread several times already, this it is not a specific criticism of your content, Ravi). The term "commercial software" [1] does *not* exclude Free and Open Source software. Therefore it does not ma