20 Jul
2010
20 Jul
'10
1:34 a.m.
On Monday 19 July 2010 15:13:54 Bernardo Barros wrote:
Yes, but a lot of stuff is not presently appealing to
industry.
Like... ,music and multimedia stuff: LilyPond, SoundCard drivers,
InkScape, GIMP, Ardour, Qtractor and so on. But yes, even though I'm a
socialist I agree with you that big corporations would benefit with
Free Software a lot.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. You might just need to think of which
industry. And A lot of the groups I mentioned are normally small businesses
around here. There are a decent number of one man operations wrt
loclsmithing. Barber shops go from one barber to several but they are not big
corporations by any means. The associations may be bigger, but if the members
wanted the software written for them to be Free, they could use their
association to coordinate their efforts.
2010/7/19 drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com>om>:
> On Monday 19 July 2010 12:12:54 you wrote:
>> Maybe they always overlap somehow, software needs support. Really good
>> and complex software need more support than one person can do just
>> with his free time. I am not sure from where this support could come
>> from.
>
> I keep thinking that industry groups would be wise to support the
> development of Free software for their industries.
>
> For instance:
>
> Locksmiths
> http://www.aloa.org/
> http://www.uklocksmithsassociation.co.uk/
> http://www.masterlocksmiths.com.au/home.aspx
>
> Barbers, Beauty Salons, Furniture Stores, Ocean Engineers, Corner Grocery
> Stores, what have you.
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
>
>> From universities, donations, companies, governments? The Linux
>> kernel, for example, is very complex and needs a lot of work all the
>> time since new hardware and software need it , and it is well
>> supported by really big companies like google, novell and red har.
>> Other areas this is not so easy to get support from companies, so I
>> now just can think of the other options: donations from people that
>> make money or work seriouly with the software, universities and
>> government programmes. The last one seems unlikely to happen but here
>> in Brazil the present government is officially supporting Linux and
>> some software projects. Donations from professionals and Universities
>> can help Free Software a lot too.
>>
>>
>> 2010/7/19 drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com>
>>
>> > On Sunday 18 July 2010 11:36:42 you wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:04 AM, drew Roberts
<zotz(a)100jamz.com>
wrote:
>> > > > Commercial and Free are not
opposites.
>> > >
>> > > no, just siblings who fight with each other like crazy for 18 years
>> > > before developing a deep and abiding love for each other :)
>> >
>> > Free and Commercial can intersect / overlap. Venn wise.
>
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