Non-Debian users benefit from the pressure that Debian puts on other distros -- just by existing -- to mind their P's and Q's when it comes to Free software, and for proving that elegant upgrade systems don't have to be glitzy or labyrnthine.
Hah! Debian 2.2 is STILL not out in stable! It's been almost a year and a half, and they don't publish upgrades to their blessed packages unless it's a big security fix, and it can't break anything, and has to be tested first.
That's ok with me, except that they take too long between releases, and unless you want to break (!) your package setup, you can't upgrade your samba, apache, etc.., or dpkg/apt-get has a hissy fit. I switched after too many of these kind of problems, so maybe if Debian FIXED their methods and procedures so that upgrades to stable packages were easy to get without switching distros they could get more users, and therefore developers, in their distro.
You simply cannot charge for a GPL'ed program. You can charge for *support*, but if the product's good enough, it shouldn't *need* that support. (Makes you think about the quality of certain Linux distros, eh?)
I really, REALLY, wish there was a version of the GPL that considered the Commercial wish to be able to charge money. (Which would *require* that redistribution either a) be done with the copyright holder's blessing, or b) only be done with those already with a license.)
*sigh* But, since that will probably never happen, most of the world will stay with a non-free OS from Redmond.
I work on Gnome-DB, and I program Geheimnis (a KDE program). Yes, I stradle both sides of the fence. And you know what, if you ignore the different between toolkits and languages (both of which this component architecture would ignore), they have pretty much the same goal: making the desktop easier to use, and improving productivity (compared to tweaking your kernel once an hour, at least). I would *LOVE* to see this. I've been wondering what KDE would do about database access, with this they could just use the Bonobo components that we have in gnome-db, and gnome mailers could use my program just as easily as they could seahorse...
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Non-Debian users benefit from the pressure that Debian puts on other distros -- just by existing -- to mind their P's and Q's when it comes to Free software, and for proving that elegant upgrade systems don't have to be glitzy or labyrnthine.
Hah! Debian 2.2 is STILL not out in stable! It's been almost a year and a half, and they don't publish upgrades to their blessed packages unless it's a big security fix, and it can't break anything, and has to be tested first.
That's ok with me, except that they take too long between releases, and unless you want to break (!) your package setup, you can't upgrade your samba, apache, etc.., or dpkg/apt-get has a hissy fit. I switched after too many of these kind of problems, so maybe if Debian FIXED their methods and procedures so that upgrades to stable packages were easy to get without switching distros they could get more users, and therefore developers, in their distro.
You simply cannot charge for a GPL'ed program. You can charge for *support*, but if the product's good enough, it shouldn't *need* that support. (Makes you think about the quality of certain Linux distros, eh?)
I really, REALLY, wish there was a version of the GPL that considered the Commercial wish to be able to charge money. (Which would *require* that redistribution either a) be done with the copyright holder's blessing, or b) only be done with those already with a license.)
*sigh* But, since that will probably never happen, most of the world will stay with a non-free OS from Redmond.
I work on Gnome-DB, and I program Geheimnis (a KDE program). Yes, I stradle both sides of the fence. And you know what, if you ignore the different between toolkits and languages (both of which this component architecture would ignore), they have pretty much the same goal: making the desktop easier to use, and improving productivity (compared to tweaking your kernel once an hour, at least). I would *LOVE* to see this. I've been wondering what KDE would do about database access, with this they could just use the Bonobo components that we have in gnome-db, and gnome mailers could use my program just as easily as they could seahorse...
I would be interested in working on such a project as well. GTK-- is alright, but IMHO just not as good as QT's api is...