Re: CENATIC Report on the International Status of Open Source Software 2010

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

Such a report requires a lot of work to be able to cover the whole world 
accurately.

From looking at the Chinese section which is the region in the world 
I'm most familiar with I wouldn't trust the other sections: only 1 local 
GNU/Linux distribution is mentioned while China has at least 4 
commercial distributions (CS2C being the one getting the highest level 
of government funds in 2010 - Red Flag has IIRC only 7 devs working on 
Linux desktop if not less this year), the described state of 
penetration/usage is also not on par with the reality, and then a lot of 
local factors are not even mentioned leading to erroneous problem 
descriptions and conclusions (and the site of the Beijing LUG has been 
bilingual until 2 months ago, when I had to remove the Chinese version 
due to a DB upgrade issue - putting it back is on my todo list).

So overall quite disappointing on the only place I know.

Fred

On 12/25/2010 11:55 PM, Lefty wrote:
> I agree. In fact, I'd like to see the full text of Mr. Stallman's essay on why software should be free included as well, so that readers will not be misled in any way, but will understand the full import of this distinction.
>
> I especially enjoy the discussion of how software developers are grossly overpaid and should be satisfied with making a "mere living" so as to recapture the joy of accomplishment inherent in their work.
>
> __
> Sent from my Steve-Phone
>
> On Dec 25, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Richard Stallman<rms gnu org>  wrote:
>
> > Please do note that GNOME is a part of the GNU Project.
> > Describing it as "open source", while not false,
> > is partly misleading.
> >
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