On Friday 07 November 2003 17:06, you wrote:
On 2003-11-07 01:55:19 +0000 Owen Leonard
<oleonard@athenscounty.lib.oh.us> wrote:
Part of 'Open Source Month' at WebJunction, an online publication of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
Can someone with a personal contact at this publication help me, please? The article "What is Open Source Software?" contains many grave errors and misleading phrases. That is unusual, because the OSI
"Open source software is free"
Only if you mean free as in freedom. I sell some of my open/free software, thank you. additionally, it is very clearly specified in the history of Koha that the library (dont ask me to spell or pronounce the name) paid katipo to develop koha and subsequently pays them to upgrade and support it - thinking that opensource stuff is written as a charitable enterprise to earn indulgences in the next life is an insult to the opensource community
"Open source software technology is equal to or better than commercial software."
Open/free software *is* commercial software sometimes. and i would add that the distinction is between opensource and closed source and not between commercial and non-commercial. Military sponsored software for example could be closed source but non-commercial. And, if opensource developers didnt make money, directly or indirectly from writing opensource code, you wouldnt find much of it around. my 2 paise kg