I know it is quite easy to get a binary version for zero cost but how does one get the source code?
Do we have freedom to build a community around this piece of software?
If the author does believe all code should be free/ open sourced then they could start with own.
Are the bits of it incorporated into virus checking programmes used under 'fair use', or is it a breach of copy right.
btw do coders loose there copyright to public domain over code that was illegal to produced. Or Can they sue others who use it?
I was person in Scotland. I mentioned having TheOpenCD available for sale rather than for lending in 2 of local libraries in my area that I know some who works there and has been giving OpenOffice.org training at them. This is coming to end now. I hope to get some of properly pressed copies of TheOpenCD that have been done by TheOpenCD bods in Oxford into a bookshop here in Edinburgh where I know owner as well.
I think it was good that it was OpenOffice.org alone on cdrom for lending, as OpenOffice.org 1.1 will have a longer shelf life than some of things included in TheOpenCD such as WinPT and Putty where it would not be good to have it still on shelve if security upgrade availiable.
A autorun pop up installer menu like opencd would have been good, with the tutorials etc. but I think Bob Kerr included some quality extras, as well as source to show the principle, that it is there like ability to look inside a car as a guantee that software will not divide and dominate it users.
It is good to be able to say to libraries with certainity cone can about openoffice.org about how the product is widely used/tested, supported and backed by large orgs and companies. Without having to disclaim that some of other things on cdrom might not have as high level of sort of support people might ask.
I think it makes more sense as far as libaires go to have different free software apps (windows versions) each on differnet cdrom in dvd case each with own cover and little booklet insert.
After all it has been shown that materials are not greatest costs. The most important thing is how libraries work as far as lending goes.
The OpenOffice.org DVD case covers and cdroms themeselves look great.
I know TheOpenCD does not fall into trap of GnuWin of trying to fill cdrom with allsorts of software for sake of it. And only chooses mature apps that fit in with intended audience. But there may be more focus needed to do a lib lending special version of TheOpenCD. I may put more musing on this up on TheOpenCD forums in new year as they move to v1.4
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I know it is quite easy to get a binary version for zero cost but how does one get the source code? Do we have freedom to build a community around this piece of software? If the author does believe all code should be free/ open sourced then they could start with own. Are the bits of it incorporated into virus checking programmes used under 'fair use', or is it a breach of copy right. btw do coders loose there copyright to public domain over code that was illegal to produced. Or Can they sue others who use it?
I was person in Scotland. I mentioned having TheOpenCD available for sale rather than for lending in 2 of local libraries in my area that I know some who works there and has been giving OpenOffice.org training at them. This is coming to end now. I hope to get some of properly pressed copies of TheOpenCD that have been done by TheOpenCD bods in Oxford into a bookshop here in Edinburgh where I know owner as well.
I think it was good that it was OpenOffice.org alone on cdrom for lending, as OpenOffice.org 1.1 will have a longer shelf life than some of things included in TheOpenCD such as WinPT and Putty where it would not be good to have it still on shelve if security upgrade availiable.
A autorun pop up installer menu like opencd would have been good, with the tutorials etc. but I think Bob Kerr included some quality extras, as well as source to show the principle, that it is there like ability to look inside a car as a guantee that software will not divide and dominate it users.
It is good to be able to say to libraries with certainity cone can about openoffice.org about how the product is widely used/tested, supported and backed by large orgs and companies. Without having to disclaim that some of other things on cdrom might not have as high level of sort of support people might ask.
I think it makes more sense as far as libaires go to have different free software apps (windows versions) each on differnet cdrom in dvd case each with own cover and little booklet insert. After all it has been shown that materials are not greatest costs. The most important thing is how libraries work as far as lending goes. The OpenOffice.org DVD case covers and cdroms themeselves look great.
I know TheOpenCD does not fall into trap of GnuWin of trying to fill cdrom with allsorts of software for sake of it. And only chooses mature apps that fit in with intended audience. But there may be more focus needed to do a lib lending special version of TheOpenCD. I may put more musing on this up on TheOpenCD forums in new year as they move to v1.4