2013/11/30 jomali <[email protected]> > Once again, Umas, you set up a straw man and demolish him! > > FOSS means "Free and Open Source Software". It doesn't necessarily refer to > software created by some pure amateur in his garage. As long as the creator > (commercial firm, university or private individual) releases the source at > no cost, it is FOSS. > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Urmas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "Peter West": > > > > Non-FOSS (BSD-licensed software): > > > > Mac OS X (based on BSD and the Mach kernel) > > Linux > > gcc > > > > Developed by commercial companies: > > Android (based on Linux) > > apache > > Firefox > > OpenJDK > > saxon > > LibreOffice > > > > So far FOSS 'community' created nothing successful. Everything was > > designed and implemented by real software developers or universities. >
But jomali, you misunderstand, «Urmas» favourite OS is a «real» OS, while all others are, of course, «toys» How so ? *Urmas locuta, causa finita est*.... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
