Coming into this late (but wishing to pass a point across), here is what i think @aki youre missing about the spirit of open source.1: Some think of the code.2: Some design, write the code.3: Some design some fancy logos.4: Some handle the web host where the code is hosted.5: Some pay for any of this.6: Some Download the code and install on their machines.7: Some use that code from (6) above and never get back at 1, 2 & 3.8: some get back to these guys.9: some set up a system for (8) to get back to (1,2 or 3).10: Some volunteer to organize this (9) in a way that (1,2and3) can understand.11: Some cant understand (1 -10).12: So some who can, for the sake of (11) using (9) tell (1,2 and 3) that 11 cant understand.13: so 1,2 and 3 modify the code so that it can be translated.14: some who understand 1-10 and 11 use 13 to make 11 unserstand........Nth: and we call all this open source.Mister AKI a.k.a (with all pun intended) P.U.N.K, looks like youve been PNKD!
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:@rad am not too sure about that but isn't that the norm even with closed source?On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
And customers get the source code?On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
There is a company called open world IT that develops opensource solutions . .
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On 11/5/10, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
> On that note where are there any companies that run on an Opensource
> software business model i.e. the produced software is open source?
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Glenn Sequeira <gsequeira@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > @Glenn, @Nd'wex. Am in a kind of rush. Gentlemen, I think let's narrow
>> this
>> > down. As passionate people of technology in your area of open source,
>> what
>> > have you done or created to have made the source code and its
>> applications
>> > of your projects more different to what you found or downloaded. When
>> > you
>> > changed the code aspects that made it more functional or adaptive, was
>> this
>> > contribution made available to some library or repository? Kindly note
>> > that helpdesk support is being done by many many open source users out
>> > there. Thus, most can google the problems.
>>
>> I'd like to reiterate that contribution to an open source project is
>> not limited to writing code:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributing/index.html (I hope
>> you bother to open this link).
>>
>> ~gms
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