david@lang.hm wrote:
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, MJ Ray wrote:
So does this also suggest that a dependent company project might not remain entirely FOSS, too?
it depends how you define FOSS, I don't know why you think that Ubuntu doesn't qualify, but there are MANY other examples of opensource projects run by companies, other people mentioned MySQL, but there is also ghostscript, cups, LLVM, OpenOffice.org that I can think of off the top of my head. Apple sponsers quite a few different projects.
I define FOSS as Free and Open Source Software, as usual. See http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.en.html Ubuntu doesn't qualify because of software one couldn't modify. The examples that I recognise on that list don't have their own not-for-profit host corporations, but they are brilliant! MySQL I covered in another email, as it ends up with founders forking into a Swiss not-for-profit. ghostscript has definitely moved around between FOSS (GPL) and non-FOSS (AFPL) versions over time. OpenOffice.org is currently having a forking good time: let's wait and see how it ends. If anyone posts more, I'm not going to continue pointing out that these aren't projects with their own not-for-profit host corporations. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha