RE: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias)

Il gio, 2002-06-13 alle 13:26, [email protected] ha
scritto:
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 05:39:22 -0400
> From: Roger Fujii <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias)
> 
> "Deven T. Corzine" <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
> > If you leave out code developed under the FSF (driven by Stallman himself),
> > what significant project has been developed under the GPL from day one, and
> > achieved significant success?  Linux is the only example I can think of --
> > can anyone offer others?
> 
> I am awaiting for an answer to this question also.

  since you have asked for it, even if I know that your was a rethorical
question, and you will dismiss all facts that you don't like, as
always...

  samba:   http://www.samba.org/

    it has also the backing of many commercial companies, like SGI and
    IBM.

  KDE:     http://www.kde.org

    notwithstanding the initial problems due to the QT licensing. This
    project is still not endorsed by the FSF.

  gimp:    http://www.gimp.org/
  gtk:     http://www.gtk.org/

  these are few of the major projects I can think of now, but if you
want these are few other minor(?) projects you can find interesting as
well:

  mplayer:   http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
  mutt:      http://www.mutt.org/
  ethereal:  http://www.ethereal.com/
  galeon:    http://galeon.sourceforge.net/
  sylpheed:  http://sylpheed.good-day.net/
  cdrecord:  
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
  xmms:      http://www.xmms.org/
  xawtv:     http://bytesex.org/xawtv/
  freecraft: http://www.freecraft.org/
  freeciv:   http://www.freeciv.org/

  and those were only few projects not directly endorsed or developed by
the FSF that I remember of right now.

  If you accept as valid answers also the project developed externally
to the FSF but somewhat endorsed by them, and then part of the GNU
Project (which contains the XFree86 system as well, even if there is no
direct connection between FSF and the XFree86 group, just to exemplify
what I mean), then the number of project becomes much bigger:

  GNOME:  http://www.gnome.org

   the project itself was created by Miguel Icaza and others, and it has
   been backed by many corporate since then. It has been endorsed by the
   FSF as an official GNU project but the real work has been done by
   Ximian, Sun, RedHat, the now defunct Eazel, and others.

  ddd:    http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ddd.html

   Graphical front end for command line debuggers. They are now guests
   of the GNU web server, but the project exists and was flourishing
   well before they decided to move on the GNU web server.

  BTW, feel free to discard all of them with one word, as you always
do...

  bye,

/pietrobo


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