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Launchpad proprietary

Launchpad proprietary

Posted Aug 19, 2008 22:12 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu

Well, they have committed to opening it up within the next twelve months ...


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Launchpad proprietary

Posted Aug 19, 2008 23:09 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Does that include landscape too? Can you provide a reference?

Launchpad proprietary

Posted Aug 20, 2008 4:22 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

Code where mouth is and all that.

Launchpad proprietary

Posted Aug 20, 2008 5:00 UTC (Wed) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

> Code where mouth is and all that.

I agree, we should hold them to that promise, and until they fulfill it we should remain
cautious.

That said, Canonical has already open-sourced parts of it, e.g., the Storm ORM, which I happen
to know about as I'm using it for a project of mine. It's LGPL and very useful.

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