Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Open Source means that the source is available. Don't confuse it with GNU 
GPL, which goes beyond OS

Regards
Anders

On Thursday 14 June 2001 02:29, Steven Hatfield wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2001 07:05 pm, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
> > theKompany.com is working on Rekall. It's an access-do-better, and uses
> > python instead of vbscript for application programming. Looks VERY good,
> > and very promising :-)
> >
> > See: http://www.thekompany.com/projects/rekall/
> >
> > -tosi
> >
> > Þann miðvikudagur 13 júní 2001 21:41 skrifaðir þú:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > I'm curious about something.
> > > Amongst all the hoopla over Office Suites, neither the Star Office or
> > > Koffice groups are working on any application that does what MS Access
> > > does, i.e. a GUI that works straight off a file, without need for a
> > > server.
> > >
> > > Or am I wrong? Is there some project that's working on a desktop-user
> > > type database app?
> > >
> > > P.S. I'm not including anything commercial like Applix - I'm talking
> > > about Free/OpenSource ware
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > Jonathan Wilson
> > > System Administrator
> > >
> > > Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
> > > Central Texas IT     http://www.centraltexasit.com
>
> Ok, let me try it with my trigger finger tied behind my hand. As I was
> saying, here is the first paragraph of the Rekall license:
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> The following list summarizes your specific rights under this license:
>
> One user may use the product, for each license that you purchase
> (additional licenses are needed for each additional concurrent user) You
> may not redistribute, sell, or rent the product You may make alterations
> and improvements to the product source code as long as you don't try to
> defeat our licensing verification code or remove our copyright, trademark
> notices, and logos. You may not distribute any changes you make without
> those changes being accepted back by theKompany and incorporated in the
> Software Product.  Please make sure you read and understand the full
> text of the product license before making a purchase. This is a binding
> agreement and the software will not function until you have accepted
> the agreement.
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> Now, while this isn't exactly an "open source" license, I must say that
> TheKompany is doing some really great things -- and I wish them the best of
> luck. Trying to find a business model in the open source community has got
> to be one of the hardest things to do right now, and TheKompany might
> actually be able to do it. To me, this is one step further than Microsoft's
> Shared Source license, where you CAN touch the code, and you CAN
> redistribute it, provided that TheKompany accepts your changes... this
> license helps TheKompany maintain their intellectual property rights, and
> making money, all the while letting people have access to the code too.
> Talk about having your cake and eating it too!
>
> On a silly note, if Microsoft adopted this philosophy, they might actually
> be thought of as something other than pure evil itself. Maybe they'd be
> "the Diet Coke of Evil".. or.. "Quasi Evil" or something... not to say that
> anyone should think of TheKompany like that.. they aren't doing crazy
> monopolistic things like changing the content of web pages with their
> squiggly purple lines... but I digress.
>
> Have a great night everyone!
> -Steven