Horst Herb wrote:
Not a matter of believing. We know from available evidence that there are some
domains where private enterprise always delivers inferior outcome as compared
to *equally funded* public undertakings: research, education and health.
That is also my feeling, but up until now I was
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, denny adelman wrote:
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I found myself wondering what alchemy would bring the open source
community into legitimate competition for such large projects.
Denny,
This is a great question that actually has already been answered. The
answer is contained in the history of
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 05:51, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, denny adelman wrote:
...
I found myself wondering what alchemy would bring the open source
community into legitimate competition for such large projects.
Denny,
This is a great question that actually has already been
On Mon, 24 Feb 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
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matter of pure practicality - in order to undertake really complex
projects, you need a team of people who can immerse themselves in the
project,
...
Tim,
There is no debate that people are needed. However, how the team come
together and operate
Andrew Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Microsoft provides open-source software through Windows XP, for
example:
...
Does that mean that the answer is a null set, or that you forgot to list the open
source software which Microsoft provides through Windows XP?
Tim C
For some reason, it appears that a support.microsoft.com URL was
censored and did not reach Tim. Here it is again (repeated 3x):
1.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q306/8/19.ASP
2.
Tim Churches wrote:
Ah hah! The URLs have been mysteriously moved to the bottom of your
message - see below.
I found this quite odd. I received both of Andrew's postings with the URL
links positioned as he had intended. Sometimes I am just fascinated that we
are not driven absolutely mad
Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For some reason, it appears that a support.microsoft.com URL was
censored and did not reach Tim. Here it is again (repeated 3x):
1.
2.
3.
Ah hah! The URLs have been mysteriously moved to the
Andrew Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For some reason, it appears that a support.microsoft.com URL was
censored and did not reach Tim. Here it is again (repeated 3x):
1.
2.
3.
Ah hah! The URLs have been mysteriously moved to the bottom of your
message - see below. I had a quick look
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
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I had a quick look at the firt of thoose URLs and it is not immediately
apparent what its relevance is,
...
Can you give us some hints?
Tim,
The URL points to Microsoft's Windows XP copyright disclosure that
mentions inclusion of open-source
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
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OK, I see what you are referring to now - the licenses for BSD material
from the Regents of the Uni of California etc at the end of the
document. But surely that is an example of Microsoft making use of other
party's open source code,
Tim,
What
Andrew Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
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OK, I see what you are referring to now - the licenses for BSD
material
from the Regents of the Uni of California etc at the end of the
document. But surely that is an example of Microsoft making use of
On 18 Feb 2004, at 22:52, Horst Herb wrote:
The difference is that one attempts to work for the greater good (but
not
necessarily sacrifice itself in that process, even FOSS developers
have to
eat), while the other attempts to maximise profit for itself (and
solely for
itself) *regardless*
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:56, denny adelman wrote:
There are some people here (I am one) who believe in the life-style
model of self-employment (risk and adventure) and Commerce (I make it,
you want it, we reach a fair deal, thank you's all around, we stay in
Who said I disagree?
I *am*
That's the difference. Time is a limited resource, that costs -
knowledge is
unlimited, not countable, invaluable and hence no price tag attached.
Acquiring knowledge costs time, hence hiring my skills is expensive.
But once
I completed some work, and I have been paid for my time, I would
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