![]() This means in any time the company behind it may go bad (reduced income or even go bankrupted) and then they may start taking money for licenses from the community edition users. They are practically only free-beer software which is not FLOSS. I just don’t like these community-editions much as they always are half-hearted. I’m not saying it is evil and GPL is all good. If you disagree strongly enough, feel free to spread awareness to the community that a vote regarding posting this status message is ongoing and maybe some more people will get interested Anyone can register on Loomio, join this group and vote.Īlso, if someone knows a good FOSS editor for Ruby IDE for rails, please speak up RubyMine seems like a very popular choice - it’s a pity it’s not FOSS but that is something we cannot control (IMHO). IMHO as a project we should be ensuring our community and devs have the best tools to do our core task, whether that is FOSS or not. We’re not promoting non-FOSS over FOSS, we’re just saying that a company is giving out free licenses for an IDE. Anything else should be (IMHO) considered as non-core functionality. ![]() IMHO our project should concentrate on our core task - ie building software and support the diaspora* social network run by that software. We’re not a project to generally advocate FOSS outside that - there are advocacy organizations for that. Understand your point and concern, but in the end diaspora* is a project building FOSS social networking software. We can’t require people to vote on proposals. Unfortunately this topic just isn’t really interesting enough for more than that 5 who voted. Or may be you have enough developers and don’t need those that don’t want to be involved (even indirectly) in non-free software promotion ? I won’t mention the opinions expressed in this thread about “Stallmanians” (they are out of subject, to say the least), but you’re a community and you’re making FOSS: you have every rights to expect others to respect your right to use non-free software, but you should at least respect people that think D* shouldn’t promote proprietary software in any way. Is it really the image of the D* project you want to give to the public and potential future developers ?Įverybody is free to use the software they chose, but “rewarding” people with non-free software won’t help build a sense of community about D*, and will only scare some dev away, because they will doubt the values of the community. Even if there’s a vote here, what does it mean with only 5 voters ? Remember you do that on behalf of the Diaspora community. Come on, people… Get free licences of a proprietary software in the name of Diaspora, really ?
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