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Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?
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Rachel Hamilton-Williams |
Subject: |
Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software? |
Date: |
Mon Apr 21 16:16:03 2003 |
Hi
> I suspect the main reason why koha is described as "open source" is that
> NZ seems to be one of the few places with a national organisation for
> "open source" but not one for "free software" promotion.
No not really - the NZOSS society wasn't really featuring at the time we made
the decision on what to call it.
I am aware that almost always there is cost to a library to implement Koha -
particularly to a big public library (always our goal). So we thought that Open
Source was more "accurate" than Free. We also are aware that large
organisations very much evaluate software on a "you get what you pay for" basis
- so we thought that *not* saying Koha was Free might at least get us a look
in.
At the time we were the first Open Source library system - but not the first
Free one - so to get that Kudos, we wanted to be Open Source.
Cheers
Rachel_____________________________________________________________
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- [Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Open Source or Free Software?, Alexandre Dulaunoy, 2003/04/17
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?, MJ Ray, 2003/04/17
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?,
Rachel Hamilton-Williams <=
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?, MJ Ray, 2003/04/22
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?, Chris Cormack, 2003/04/22
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?, MJ Ray, 2003/04/22
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?, Chris Cormack, 2003/04/22
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?, MJ Ray, 2003/04/22
- Re: [Koha-devel] Open Source or Free Software?, Pat Eyler, 2003/04/22
[Koha-devel] Re: [Koha] Open Source or Free Software?, Erik Stainsby, 2003/04/18