It seems to me that just because Sun (IBM, Novell) etc pay people to develop and maintain OpenOffice.org (not to be confused with Sun's Star Office) makes it somehow tainted. It's still Open Source, you can still compile it yourself if you want to, alter it, etc, etc. Is Ubuntu similarly tainted because Mark Shuttleworth has ploughed his cash into it, or OpenSuse because Novell - and worse yet because Novell and Microsoft have agreed not to sue one another?
Could someone tell me what is a perfect example of an Open Source project then? The Linux Kernel, perhaps? None of which is really relevant to the nitty-gritty of SDCC, of course. On Saturday 30 August 2008 07:36:26 Kustaa Nyholm wrote: > >>Openoffice.org is > >> > >>> far more better documented. From those comments, and in the context > > in > > >>> which they were made, it is easily assumed that the Opensource > > community > > >>> takes full credit for that marvelous achievement. > >>> > >>> However, leave it to some nutcase like me to point out, in this > > context, > > >> that Openoffice.org was wholly designed and fully developed by paid > >> > >> professional programmers working under the direction of Sun > > Microsystems. > > >No question - OpenOffice is NOT representative of the Opensource > >community or of volunteer effort. > > Not realy relevant but in some blog I read it was quite compellingly > argumented that > there less that 50 people in the whole world who actually contribute to > the *code* > of the OpenOffice, so in that respect too, it is not a show case how > well the > opensource model of development works. > > But that is not relevant here nor there, just an observation. > > br Kusti > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere > in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Sdcc-user mailing list > Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user -- Richard. PGP Key-id: 0x5AB3D350 "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays", 1928 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
