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#14343: Eat your own dog food
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Written by vexorian the 12 Oct 08 at 23:10.
Category: Programming.
Related to:
launchpad.net.
Status: New
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Description
So, the question is, what exactly is the reason launchpad and brainstorm aren't open source yet? You know, things like this just help erode ubuntu's image, it will be a large boost in ubuntu's image if things like this could be made open source, well, Jhon Doe doesn't care about this, but you should know that many devs. do, and Ubuntu could use a larger dev community, in my opinion. I titled this "Eat your own dog food" because there is another reason rather than image with the community, there is also the image with people outside of the open source world, why would an OS that promotes such things as being 100% guaranteeing that it will stay free, and an OS that is such a flag project for open source in general, not have a FOSS tracker platform?
The website software could help many infant open source projects have a good platform for their things, also, remember that open source is a good development strategy, opening up these projects will speed new features and bug fixes...
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planckscnst wrote on the 12 Oct 08 at 23:30
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Non an idea.
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vexorian wrote on the 12 Oct 08 at 23:52
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No, an idea does not become a non-idea just because you don't agree with it or couldn't read past the title.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 00:20
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Brainstorm already is open-source.
On July 9, 2007, Canonical Ltd. released with the Launchpad component "Storm" the first component under a free software license.
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acreman wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 01:42
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As Eldmannen said, Brainstorm is free. Look for the code and you'll find it. As for this "idea", well it isn't an idea that would help Ubuntu or any of its derivatives. An idea based off of what you said would be "Make the code to Brainstorm freely available.", to which I would reply as dupe. This is nothing more then your opinion and not a well thought plan to implement a new addition / add new features to an existing program / remove an old unused program from Ubuntu.
-1 from me.
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Auzy wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 03:40
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There still is landscape though. Thats Canonicals way of saying that open sourcing commercial programs isn't profitable
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 nand (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 08:27
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Another example is Blenderstorm, which use a customized older version of Ubuntu Brainstorm.
I'll be happy to hear any feedback from people using or wanting to use Ideatorrent!
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