Linuxtrent: Fwd: The FSF Europe recommends: avoid SourceForge
- From: Maurizio Napolitano <napo@xxxxxx>
- To: linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:17:43 +0100
Sempre da forward di altre ML (questo e' girato da MiLUG)
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>phpGroupWare is leaving SourceForge
>
><<Long term reliability - VA Linux is a corporation, and one that is having
>plenty of hard times over the last year. VA started out as a hardware
>company, and did fairly well. Then they started SoureForge which has been a
>tremendous benefit to the Free/Open_Source Software communities, for that we
>thank them. Then after they IPO'd as a Linux hardware company and had an
>insane stock valuation the bubble burst. The stock market started to slow
>down and DotComs everywhere fell it, including VA who's stock plummeted
>(quite unfairly I might add). They have since dropped their hardware
business
>and have decided to become a software and services company. The foundation
of
>which is SourceForge OnSite/Enterprise which is a special version that they
>setup for med/large companies internal development needs. This means that
>their paychecks now depend on being able to sell the SourceForge software.
>They have made it clear that many of the new things they are doing will not
>be under the GPL. All of this makes me nervous...>>
>
>http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-11-13-016-20-PR-CY-SW
>
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Io sono molto precoce.
Pensate che ho imparato prima a scrivere che a leggere.
Infatti scrivevo e mi chiedevo: ma che cosa ho scritto?
(Claudio Bisio)
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