Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Elkins
OpenOffice/LibreOffice Discussed OpenOffice in that may have issues with finer points of formatting. This could be an issue when trying to convince organizations to install Linux on the desktop. Downloaded and installed LibreOffice from LibreOffice site on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS following

Re: [Dorset] FOSS licensing

2011-02-06 Thread John Cooper
Well, this one is one of the great religious debates and I dare say it could go on forever. Just seems to me alot of people see closing F/OSS code as stealing, something I strongly disagree with. Well if it is GPL'd, it is effectively stealing and illegal. I don't see a problem with this, if

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-06 Thread Natalie Hooper
On 6 February 2011 11:38, Robert Bronsdon reash...@gmail.com wrote: OpenOffice/LibreOffice Discussed OpenOffice in that may have issues with finer points of formatting. This could be an issue when trying to convince organizations to install Linux on the desktop. Are the differences

Re: [Dorset] FOSS licensing

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:59:22 -, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote: Well if it is GPL'd, it is effectively stealing and illegal. Ack, the reason I shouldn't get into these. Copyright infringement IS NOT stealing. The legal precident is set. The technical definitions are know.

Re: [Dorset] FOSS licensing

2011-02-06 Thread John Cooper
On 06/02/11 12:13, Robert Bronsdon wrote: well license it like Apache and it is then lost in IIS! ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org//httpd/ Can you please tell me what part of the Apache/HTTPD has been lost? Please point me at the parts of code that are missing and I will