Dear Forest,
The following is very encouraging. I will review it as time allows.
Thank you and...
Kindest Regards,
Flint
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Forest Bond wrote:
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:39:01 -0500
From: Forest Bond <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Truth to power - re: Logic Supply
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:20:39PM -0500, Paul Flint wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote:
Re: Linux
Lets not knock an organization that is trying to expand their horizons --
though slowly. They list themselves as a Canonical Solutions partner.
Wonder how much code they have contributed?
The following were spun off from internal LS projects. The copyrights were
signed over to me and I have the signed and dated agreements on file if you need
proof:
* http://www.alittletooquiet.net/software/bootboot/
* http://www.alittletooquiet.net/software/pytasks/
* http://www.alittletooquiet.net/software/taskui/
This is LS copyrighted GPL code:
* https://code.launchpad.net/rebar
There is other code that is currently internal-only, but is likely to see GPL
release at some point. I'm not currently able to provide details.
We have a PPA where we've provided some Ubuntu packages that are mostly useful
internally, but might also be useful to others:
* https://launchpad.net/~logicsupply/+archive/ppa
We wrote a DHL module for osCommerce and uploaded it to the community
contributions website. I'm not able to locate it at this time (we have the code
here, of course, but it has since been forked and is no longer compatible with
osC).
I published a patch for MediaWiki implementing rudimentary support for TinyMCE.
You can see that here:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TinyMCE
You can see here that I sent a patch to the newt developers. This was for a
company project and was done on company time:
* https://fedorahosted.org/newt/browser/newt.spec
And here, a patch for the Ubuntu memtest86+ package:
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memtest86+/+bug/175720
There are probably others that I've forgotten. Google "forest bond" with
"patch", and maybe you'll find some. I've also filed many bug reports and
worked with developers to fix them on company time (Linux, Ubuntu, and Django
come to mind, but I'm sure there were other projects, too).
We publish test results and work arounds for running Ubuntu on LS hardware:
* http://www.logicsupply.com/faq?faq1=23&faq2=145
We've been pre-installing Ubuntu on select systems since March of 2008, but were
providing support on Linux since well before that.
Our blog has on several occasions played host to Linux-related howto
documentation. You'll note my recent post on creating read-only Linux systems.
* http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/category/linux/
We've been offering m0n0wall, a FreeBSD-based firewall solution, pre-installed
on our hardware since, oh, 2006 probably, and have donated cash to the project.
* http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/firewall_systems
Additionally, we work with our upstream hardware vendors to provide better
support for Linux on their hardware. We try to pressure them, when appropriate,
to work with the open-source community. I like to think that some of that
effort has resulted in improvements, but it's hard to say.
Our technical staff has been provided Ubuntu training. I personally have
provided support for Linux on our hardware that goes above and beyond what would
be expected from most vendors.
We also employ a few software developers apart from myself that spend their work
days dealing almost exclusively with open-source technologies, and are happy to
do so. They are treated well and encouraged to work with the open-source
community. They file bug reports and participate on mailing lists.
And Logic Supply has treated me very well for more than three years now, over
the course of which I've written some open-source code of my own:
* http://www.pytagsfs.org
* http://www.logq.org
* http://www.alittletooquiet.net/software
And contributed to a variety of open-source projects, including:
* Ubuntu
* GnuCash
* mhWaveEdit
* bzr
* moosic
* Django
So please, Paul, tell me. Where is *your* code?
-Forest
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Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net
http://www.pytagsfs.org
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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