On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:38:42PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:37, csj@mindgate.net wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:39:19PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:55 am, Sharninder wrote: > > > > > This, therefore, is a call to boycott all Caldera and SCO > > > > > products. Do not use or recommend the use of: > > > > > > > > > > * Caldera OpenLinux > > > > > * SCO Linux > > > > > * SCO OpenServer > > > > > * SCO UnixWare > > > > > > > > So wouldn't that also mean boycotting OSDN -- sites like > > > > Freshmeat, Sourceforge, and Slashdot? OK, I'm a dumbass, what's the link between OSDN and SCO/Caldera? Just the whole formerly-Free-now-proprietary software thing? Slashdot should be boycotted on principle anyway, what with the various editorial abuses and acts of stupidity :) > SourceForge, while it has been an amazingly substantive freely available > contribution to Open Source software and development efforts, is > provided/backed by a company that has moved the new versions of the > underlying software running the system to a "less than free" product (I > haven't read the current license so I'm not sure *just* how unfree it > is, but I have read numerous comments wondering about the risk of the > plug someday being pulled on the less than "financially free" expense of > running SourceForge) It seems that SourceForge is now completely proprietary software; the last release of any code was, IIRC, September 2001. They kept promising a release in August last year, but it still hasn't happened. > while Savannah is a FSF/GNU Project iiuc, based > on/derived from the last free version of SourceForge software. Yeah, there are a bunch of forks from the last Free release around. freshmeat.net, funnily enough, probably has the complete list :-) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
Attachment:
pgpeAV6uULFCj.pgp
Description: PGP signature