Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ pinguin0 on Tuesday 19 February 2008 18:54 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz ha scritto:
>>> More about reciprocity, collaboration. Like effective research.
>> Yes, effective research in a collaborative way. It's a model that can
>> work as long as the community is envolved in the entire process.
>>
>>>> Ah, Microsoft...
>>>
>>> More like egocentricity, control. Like fascism.
>>>
>> Not only fascism. Not only fascism but you know, we live in dangerous
>> times... but that's not the question.
>>
>>
>> Both sides are only one side of the same medal (selling software).
>> I'm thinking about this: I can develop something using open sourced
>> tools, add something closed to it then close it definitely.
>> Or (better!!) I can make the entire process viceversa [not sure about
>> the term. the process can have more ways...]
>>
>>
>> In the end I'm satisfied. I can develop something then decide what to do
>> with it. That's the power of open sourced tools.
>
> The great power you may actually have is the nature of the GNU GPL. If you want
> to build a content management system, for example, you can license it under
> the GPL and then grab bits of interest from other existing projects, such as
> CMSs. It's a mix and match approach. Development is mixed. It's /FAST/.
> Improvements you make to other people's code will help them too. Watch
> projects like PHP-Nuke. I actually think it's an Italian guy who wrote it
> (maybe he moved to Canada, but I can't quite recall his biography after many
> years of staying out of the codebase).
>
Roy's quite right, the GPL is a very powerful licence, it makes use of
copyright law which seems to be reasonably harmonised across the world.
I've you're planning to do development, I'd suggest you get something
out in the open, say on sourceforge, fairly rapidly, as you might get
interested. Some projects develop a wide following, some tend to remain
single-developer, but either way, the GPL is the superior choice of
licence, as it means that anyone else who works on the code and
redistributes is also must redistribute their additions, so that you
will get them back.
Good luck!
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