Comments on: response to free/open source software discussion http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/ civilization is for squares Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Hugh http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-73 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:53:04 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-73 FLOSS = free libre open source software a catch-all acronym. FLOSS = free libre open source software

a catch-all acronym.

]]> by: cicatrix http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-71 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:04:02 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-71 & you said in your entry that I mostly talked about floss, and I was confused as I don't know what the acronym FLOSS means & thus was unsure as to how I had managed to talk about it. & you said in your entry that I mostly talked about floss, and I was confused as I don’t know what the acronym FLOSS means & thus was unsure as to how I had managed to talk about it.

]]> by: julien http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-69 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:54:56 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-69 Michael, you wrote FLOSS on your blog as an acronym. I don't know what it means either. Michael, you wrote FLOSS on your blog as an acronym. I don’t know what it means either.

]]> by: mtl3p http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-68 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:36:11 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-68 hmm - i don't understand the question? hmm - i don’t understand the question?

]]> by: cicatrix http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-67 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:04:50 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-67 btw, Michael, what in the hells is FLOSS when it 's at home? btw, Michael, what in the hells is FLOSS when it ’s at home?

]]> by: julien http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-65 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:16:33 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-65 Wow, that was mad choppy. Odeo needs to get their act together. But the concept is totally solid, Ella. I think an important aspect of these new Web 2.0 companies is that they are realizing the appeal of connecting to the average web user. Hopefully, companies and organizations will learn from this. Wow, that was mad choppy. Odeo needs to get their act together. But the concept is totally solid, Ella. I think an important aspect of these new Web 2.0 companies is that they are realizing the appeal of connecting to the average web user. Hopefully, companies and organizations will learn from this.

]]> by: dose :: ella throws her hat into the ring :: April :: 2006 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-64 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:19:54 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-64 [...] er hat into the ring ella’s audiothougts on free/libre/open movement: response to free/open source software discu [...] […] er hat into the ring

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]]> by: mtl3p http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-62 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:34:02 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-62 nice to hear what you have to say :-) too bad it's choppy. I agree with you that it's a problem for free software - but I know that it has helped us produce wifidog that is used by lots of people. and i've used it for open office because I didn't have enough money to buy ms office. did you have thoughts on how the free software, creative commons, open journals, open civic data, participatory culture, etc fit together? nice to hear what you have to say :-)

too bad it’s choppy.

I agree with you that it’s a problem for free software - but I know that it has helped us produce wifidog that is used by lots of people. and i’ve used it for open office because I didn’t have enough money to buy ms office.

did you have thoughts on how the free software, creative commons, open journals, open civic data, participatory culture, etc fit together?

]]> by: Hugh http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-61 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:02:03 +0000 http://cherriescabaret.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/response-to-freeopen-source-software-discussion/#comment-61 hey cool - i think this is a really really important point, and it's i guess it shows the importance of the connections between coders and the rest of the world. open source software has definitely been the domain of uber geeks (& remains do) - but it has moved beyond that. two quick examples of tools even granny can use: firefox & wordpress. I think this has to do with critical mass too - the more people contributing to the movement, the more useful it becomes - because the building blocks are there to be used. if someone has done all the work to make GPL sofware only an uber-geek could love, then someone else can build on that to make it cuddly for all of use. But maybe the point there is that wider world doesn't really "get" open source, and the geeks don't really care all that much about the wider world. so this is why tallking about it - seeing what we do have in common - might be an important thing. thanks for this! hey cool - i think this is a really really important point, and it’s i guess it shows the importance of the connections between coders and the rest of the world.

open source software has definitely been the domain of uber geeks (& remains do) - but it has moved beyond that. two quick examples of tools even granny can use: firefox & wordpress. I think this has to do with critical mass too - the more people contributing to the movement, the more useful it becomes - because the building blocks are there to be used. if someone has done all the work to make GPL sofware only an uber-geek could love, then someone else can build on that to make it cuddly for all of use.

But maybe the point there is that wider world doesn’t really “get” open source, and the geeks don’t really care all that much about the wider world. so this is why tallking about it - seeing what we do have in common - might be an important thing.

thanks for this!

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