Re: [Bug 50699] Re: This is not a matter of distribution

2008-02-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
For the record, I think Canonical has a very sophisticated view of the free software model. We directly fund a huge amount of free software development, through Ubuntu, Bazaar, Storm and other projects. The vast majority of the code we work on and publish is published under the GPL. So we know

Re: [Bug 50699] Re: This is not a matter of distribution

2008-02-01 Thread Brian Visel
I think that Canonical is doing a fine job with free software, and they have the stated intent of opening Launchpad at a certain point in the development of their business plan. If they don't, then I'll start hounding them to open it. But until then, they've already expressed their intent, and th

[Bug 50699] Re: This is not a matter of distribution

2008-02-01 Thread Kurt Kraut
Hi Przemyslaw, This is not a matter of distribution. Launchpad should be free software in order to receive multiple colaboration on its development, bugfixing and feature implementation. The reason is, anyone who used free software, strongly belive that a community building a software is much more