[Ilugc] Doubt with Calling/Deeveloping OSS
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Sun Jul 16 12:52:02 2006
On 14-Jul-06, at 9:50 PM, Parthan wrote:
I ended up having a doubt about calling something OSS and using
some widely available OS tools to build something whose source code
you don't release. This is an advent of participating in a
demonstration of a software package which is made 90% using OSS
like PostgreSQL, etc. but the source code is not given along with.
foss is a child of the internet, and the main foss tool is the
internet. In order, foss tools are:
1. mailing lists
2. forums
3. repositories
5. bugtrackers
6. wikis
all of which are publicly accessible (at least read, usually not
write). Just because a software package is developed using foss
packages, it does not lend any particular foss 'vaadai' to the package.
The power and stability of the foss model is due to public access to
these tools in development. So a developer who is not using these
tools cannot claim he is using foss tools for development. Nothing
wrong with writing and selling good closed source software, but to
try to push it by giving a foss halo round it is bad. And they cant
prove it anyway as they wont show the code. I can say that M$ access
is written with foss tools - can anyone disprove it?
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regards
kg
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