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Ubuntu Conference: The LaunchPad workshopUbuntu Conference: The LaunchPad workshopPosted Dec 16, 2004 1:06 UTC (Thu) by linuxbox (subscriber, #6928)Parent article: Ubuntu Conference: The LaunchPad workshop
I guess I'm really confused why closed-source tools would be viewed as a solution to the problems these small, really-free efforts are experiencing. Are any involved folks out there to comment?
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Ubuntu Conference: The LaunchPad workshop Posted Dec 16, 2004 14:08 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] I don't know how closed source could be the solution, but I do know I wasreading the article until that point, but one I read it'd be closed source, I barely skimmed the rest, and will probably take a pass on or only fast-skim any additional articles I see on them. If I wanted closed source, it would have been far easier to stay with MSWormOS. I'm a Linux user in part because I didn't find that acceptable then, to the point of dumping a decade of experience on the platform to switch, so there's simply /no/ /way/ I'm going to accept anything closed source now. I expect there are a lot of folks with similar feelings. After all, MS is still the 900 lb gorilla on the desktop, and there's Sun and others available for high end servers as well, if people are willing to take proprietary. That's still far easier than going open source, in many ways, so I have a feeling there's a good reason many open source folks are in the community and /not/ in the proprietaryware world, and it's /not/ so they can go be in the proprietaryware world ANYWAY! Duncan
Ubuntu Conference: The Posted Dec 22, 2004 15:52 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] The only type of closed-source I tolerate (barely) is hardware-tied things: 3ware monitoring programs, NVidia drivers, etc. Even then I tend to chose hardware without closed source programs. But that's just me. There are many others who are content with closed source. BitKeeper is used by kernel developers (and this fact alone was enough to entail rise of new interest to open-source version control systems). If LaunchPad will generate similar effect - it'll be good thing. I will not use LaunchPad if it's closed source but I think we'll see open-source thing similar in functions... eventually
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