Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 11 Jun 2010 01:24:40 Oron Peled wrote: On Thursday, 10 בJune 2010 21:26:20 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Even if you have the source code, it does not mean you can build it. Exactly. 2. How about modified-in-house software? Initially, it looks different, but let me explain why it's

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday, 12 בJune 2010 19:59:56 Shlomi Fish wrote: On Friday 11 Jun 2010 01:24:40 Oron Peled wrote: Well, that's the ideal. In practice, deployed FOSS code (which can always be modified in-house, according to the free software definition), sometimes tends to divert from the mainline code

Re: [not entirely OT] proper terms for grades of freedom

2010-06-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il writes: Simplified explanation: When software teams are pressured by management to produce results at impossible deadlines, without taking maintenance into consideration (clients pays only for features, or fixing immediate critical bugs) -- than over sufficient

New Home for the linux-israel Subversion Repository

2010-06-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, following the demise of opensvn.csie.org , I've relocated the Subversion repository opensvn.csie.org/linuxisrael here: http://code.google.com/p/linux-israel/ Please let me know if you'd like a commit bit. Regards, Shlomi Fish --