Interesting thoughts, but "the third way" represents an approach where the public and private sector indeed have a third and effective companion - the civil society. A governmental approach must thus be to support and make room (e.g. in legislation - Software patents ring a bell?) for the civil society. Funding is not the primary concern. It shouldn't be because the public sector is trying to cut down the public funding of non-core public responsibilities. (Criterias for core vs non-core is still debatable though.)
Tony Blair used Anthony Giddens term, "the third way", in his political campaign to make people believe that he could make everyone happy - the socialists and the conservatives. But the trilateral understanding of society is nonetheless interesting when thinking of Open Source.
Here is a link to a paper I wrote about this issue a few years ago and before I really understood Open Source. (so please be gentle!) - http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/pedersen.pdf
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The filter for Abiword also works for OOo. libwpd has a working OOo plugin and converter for WPD documents. http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/
I need KBabel to translate .po-files. Does anyone know if KBabel is included in Knoppix 3.3 ?
It's in 3.1 but was left out in 3.2...
Interesting thoughts, but "the third way" represents an approach where the public and private sector indeed have a third and effective companion - the civil society. A governmental approach must thus be to support and make room (e.g. in legislation - Software patents ring a bell?) for the civil society. Funding is not the primary concern. It shouldn't be because the public sector is trying to cut down the public funding of non-core public responsibilities. (Criterias for core vs non-core is still debatable though.) Tony Blair used Anthony Giddens term, "the third way", in his political campaign to make people believe that he could make everyone happy - the socialists and the conservatives. But the trilateral understanding of society is nonetheless interesting when thinking of Open Source. Here is a link to a paper I wrote about this issue a few years ago and before I really understood Open Source. (so please be gentle!) - http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/pedersen.pdf