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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gratis software being released as proprietary
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Andrés Muñiz Piniella |
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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gratis software being released as proprietary |
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Sat, 08 Aug 2015 07:15:23 +0100 |
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>Be mindful of certain limits. It's not reasonable to push for the
>liberation of software that they simply do not have control
>over---there
>may be 3rd-party licensing issues, NDAs, grant terms, etc.
>
>
Given that they have hired external developers there might be strings attached.
This is a good point.
>> What are some infamous examples of dead/graveyard technical
>> proprietary software?
>
>Consider GNU. We are using and improving on tools that are more than
>thirty years old---some before GNU existed. The better question is:
>what proprietary software can you think of that has stood this test of
>time?
>
>Users are concerned about dying software all the time. What if Apple
>decided one day to simply stop developing its software? What would
>happen with all the data stored in proprietary formats, or software
>using their proprietary APIs? What would happen to all of the software
>that runs only on their operating system? Or what if they did it
>intentionally, to force users to "upgrade" to something newer?
>
>
This might be of interest.
https://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html
I guess first stop might be to find a bugtracker, repository, mailinglist,
documentation page(wiki?). Gnu Savannah seems to have all of the above.
dev Community might be kickstarted when liberized and posted/advertized in R
developer forums. In fact, I think they would love to hear about the project.
I think gnumeric (gnome spreadsheet ) works with R.
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