Thread: Types of OSS Projects, review requested
Folks, I've put up an article at Powerpostgresql.com on "The 5 Types of Open Source Projects". Since I intend to hand this out at OSBC, I'd like to get some feedback from other OSS people before handing it to the suits. Can people let me know where I've mis-characterized projects, and where my narrative is unclear? Thanks! http://www.powerpostgresql.com/5_Types -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
Josh, can you modify your css or html-coding ? I used to use firefox not in full screen mode and it's very difficult to me to read your site, while it's just plain text and nothing prevent to have it friendly. Here is a screenshot http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/tmp/powerpostgresql.com.gif Notice, I can't scroll right to see what did you write :) Oleg On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > I've put up an article at Powerpostgresql.com on "The 5 Types of Open Source > Projects". Since I intend to hand this out at OSBC, I'd like to get some > feedback from other OSS people before handing it to the suits. > > Can people let me know where I've mis-characterized projects, and where my > narrative is unclear? Thanks! > > http://www.powerpostgresql.com/5_Types > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia) Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83
Oleg, > can you modify your css or html-coding ? I used to use firefox not in > full screen mode and it's very difficult to me to read your site, while > it's just plain text and nothing prevent to have it friendly. > Here is a screenshot > http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/tmp/powerpostgresql.com.gif > Notice, I can't scroll right to see what did you write :) Very odd, considering that the article was *composed* in FireFox. Gavin? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:28:36 -0800, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > > Can people let me know where I've mis-characterized projects, and where my > narrative is unclear? Thanks! I really like this a lot, and think it would also be telling to include the license schemes adopted by the different example projects - which are GPL, BSD, or dual. Thanks for writing this up, this is a great resource for explaining FOSS to the uninitiated. -- Mitch
Mitch, > I really like this a lot, and think it would also be telling to > include the license schemes adopted by the different example projects > - which are GPL, BSD, or dual. Hmmm. Actually, of all the groups, only Corporate is tied to particular licenses. Everyone else is all over the map. A comment on that is in order. > Thanks for writing this up, this is a great resource for explaining > FOSS to the uninitiated. Hey, that's what it's for! Glad you liked it. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Monday 14 March 2005 11:59, you wrote:
> Robert,
>
> > 1. You might want to add in that some monarchist style projects are also
> > refer to as "benevolent dictatorships" since monarchist tends to have a
> > more negative image associated with it.
>
> Really? I picked the word "Monarchist" because it was the most neutral
> term in English I could come up with. The other possibilites:
> "Dictatorship", "High Priest", "Aristocracy" all had much more negative
> associations.
>
> What do other people think about this.
>
Looks like I futzed up the cc to advocacy again... hey all , what do folks
think about this? I just can't think of any monarchy that people think
highly of (maybe monaco) but also monarchy seems to imply that control stays
within the family... with a dictatorship the torch can be passed to a
favorable replacement... anyone have a better wording?
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:11:06 -0500, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Looks like I futzed up the cc to advocacy again... hey all , what do folks > think about this? I just can't think of any monarchy that people think > highly of (maybe monaco) but also monarchy seems to imply that control stays > within the family... with a dictatorship the torch can be passed to a > favorable replacement... anyone have a better wording? The term 'benevolent dictatorship' also stems from the FOSS vernacular and terminology - not sure if that would be read the same way by someone new to FOSS. -- Mitch
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 17:20, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:11:06 -0500, Robert Treat
> <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > >
> > Looks like I futzed up the cc to advocacy again... hey all , what do folks
> > think about this? I just can't think of any monarchy that people think
> > highly of (maybe monaco) but also monarchy seems to imply that control stays
> > within the family... with a dictatorship the torch can be passed to a
> > favorable replacement... anyone have a better wording?
>
> The term 'benevolent dictatorship' also stems from the FOSS vernacular
> and terminology - not sure if that would be read the same way by
> someone new to FOSS.
>
Does it? I was certainly familiar with that term before I got into OSS,
but maybe thats just me...
Robert Treat
--
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
On 14 Mar 2005 17:51:41 -0500, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 17:20, Mitch Pirtle wrote: \> > > > The term 'benevolent dictatorship' also stems from the FOSS vernacular > > and terminology - not sure if that would be read the same way by > > someone new to FOSS. > > Does it? I was certainly familiar with that term before I got into OSS, > but maybe thats just me... Well, for me at least the first time I ever heard the term was Linus, and then Larry Wall, then Guido from the python camp..... -- Mitch