[Koha] Koha in the news

[Joshua Ferraro]

I actually know Ed personally (he works for the Gates Foundation in
Seattle which I visited as part of the Gates Foundation Grant).  I'll
drop him an email and mention that the community requested some 
adjustments to his article--does that sound ok?

Joshua     

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 06:03:49PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2003 17:06, you wrote:
> > On 2003-11-07 01:55:19 +0000 Owen Leonard
> >
> > <oleonard at 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
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Joshua Ferraro
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