From wk@gnupg.org Tue May 28 15:18:26 2002
On Tue, 28 May 2002 14:29:43 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Schilling said:
- They are Open Source -> Yes
A lot of companies claim to be Open Source; the question is whether they are a Free Software company. Although they develop FS I don't think that they are. However, they contribute a lot of work to Free Software and the GNU project in particular.
- The software they create benefits from OSS/FS development paradigms -> NO
I don't know this paradigma. I am pretty sure that I don't need to reiterate on this list what makes up free software. The development model is definitive not a criterium for that.
If RH insists in not integrating other OSS/FS parts, they are definitely not a OSS/FS company but only just another company that makes Source available.
It is an undeniable fact that Cygnus used to be the first FS company but they did not participate in the "Bazaar" model. A FS developer is
The result from not using this development model is a significant slow down in development speed.
Jörg
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Joerg Schilling schilling@fokus.gmd.de wrote:
The result from not using this development model is a significant slow down in development speed.
Who cares? That has nothing to do with Freedom to use, study, copy and modify the software, which is what matters, at least on _this_ mailing list.
Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang
On Tue, 28 May 2002 18:04:56 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Schilling said:
The result from not using this development model is a significant slow down in development speed.
Quality and speed is in most cases a contradiction ;-)
What they definitely do, is to improve the legal maintainability of the software - something a decent company should take care of. This helps to support FS a lot by paying a bunch of developers to work full time on important software.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner