Calling all open source developers

[Richmond Mathewson]

Thierry wrote:
>
> Le 19 oct. 09 à 18:48, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
>
>> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> I'm putting together some notes for an article at revJournal.com on 
>>> open source projects done with Rev.
>>>
>>> If you're working on complete applications or even just components 
>>> for the Rev community, let's use the pages at revJournal.com to help 
>>> raise the visibility of your efforts.
>>>
>>> Please reply off-list to me at: ambassador at fourthworld.com
>>>
>>> Kindly include a brief description of your project, URL to its home 
>>> page, and please note which FOSS license the project uses.
>>>
>>> Thanks -
>>>
>> Pardon my goofiness, but as far as In understand an Open Source 
>> project is not
>> possble using RunRev because RunRev is itself proprietary.
>>
>> I ran up against this several years ago when I offered 2 programs of 
>> mine to
>> Ubuntu, who, to put it nicely, got "all hoity-toity" because the 
>> source code
>> was not completely open.
>
> Hi Richmond,
>
> The Ubuntu software repository is divided into four components - main, 
> restricted, universe and multiverse - on the basis of our ability to 
> support that software, and whether or not it meets the goals laid out 
> in our Free Software Philosophy.
>
> Read more here :
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components
>
>
> My 2 cents
>
Thank you, Thierry; I have read all that stuff a while ago; and almost 
fell asleep
because it was so boring.

In my youth I was a fanatic, shouting for various 'pure' causes from 
various rooftops:
had I come across it sooner the Free Software Philosophy might have been 
one of them.
However, age and experience has shown me that dividing things up into 
hard-and-fast
black/white categories is, ultimately counter-productive.

As far as I recall, my reply to the Ubuntu people (to whom I had offered 
2 reasonable
programs about the phonemes of English) was something like "boil your 
heads".

I am, after all, a great fan of Open Source software, whose computers 
almost exclusively
use Open Source applications; all feeding into work I do using Runtime 
Revolution, which
I love, and is far from Open Source.

Now if I come 'bearing gifts" the old adage; "Don't look a gift-horse in 
the mouth" should
hold good. Feel free to, politely say "No Thanks", but not to get all 
high-and-mighty with
some 'pure' Philosophy, because pure philosophies are like anything, 
when pressed
against the wall (pushed to their reductio ad absurdam) the pips, 
inevitably, squeak.
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As far as I am concerned, Richard made a small mistake in using the term 
"Open Source"
when he might have been better to use "Given Away Free" in its place.