GNU GPL

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 16:56 +0000, Ali Hassan wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I want to admit I do not understand completely the process of
> non-profit software development. As result, I do not understand if my
> proposal falls into this process. I am a PhD student in France. I have
> proposed a very good "from my point of view" model for developing
> mobile systems. As validation,I want to implement a specific
> application utilizing this model.
> 
> I already started that, however, it will take very long time if I am
> the only one who writes and debugs the code.
> 
> Are the programmer who contribute in the free software development,
> are they potential candidates to contribute in this application??
> 
> The application can be posted on the Internet, and be used by all
> people who want to, like any Linux application.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions,
> ali 
> 
> 
> 

First of all, to EVERYONE! This is an example of the message text being
inside a box/cell that I rant about. Just try to reply and middle post
to it, it can't be done. To Ali, get rid of that Yahoo Mail piece of 
@#$% junk service. Gmail is good and free and doesn't crud up your email
with "features". Select text mode in your Gmail setup. It just works. My
boss is tied in with this and I ~loathe~ it. <spits> You'll never make
it off the ground with that between you and collaborators. They'll go
crazy in short order and disappear. Ali, since you're not on the
receiving end of your email, you don't know. But, I wish Yahoo would
just die somewhere awful, the stupid inane no-good bums. Yeah, that's
how I REALLY feel!  Yahoo! You! Suck! Big! Time! 

~Whew!~ 

...that off of my chest, read the GPL and use that text file in your
distribution and you're covered. Easy. As Eric Raymond points out in his
tome: "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", those who have interest in what
you do will join in. Those are the people you want. You cannot get
people any other way that will prove to be as useful. You might wish to
put you project somewhere like SourceForge or similar. Then everyone can
spot it and join or not. Again, the ones that you want are the ones that
join in. Ric

p/s sorry for the rant, but what I've been railing against before is now
made plain. Does anyone know how to get rid of that text box?  


-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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