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2008
La horde du contrevent
by Katy.Remy
& 1 other
Un livre univers et sa musique a decouvrir en ligne ou en poche
CMXtraneous: The irony of open source software
by mozkart
Free, I like free. I use free stuff all the time. Firefox, Filezilla, 7zip, and Thunderbird every day, for example. My server is on some flavor of GNU/Linux with Apache, phpmyadmin, Horde, mySQL and PHP (which also includes, I’m sure, TONs more software). I have a Yahoo, Hotmail, Myway, Gmail, and AOL free email address. All of those have a variety of free to them, some are open source free (GPL, for example), some are closed source free, some are just used for free (like Google, for example) where there is no source to see. Now, with open source, it is more than mere “free” software – it carries a philosophy with it, that software should be free. The preamble to the license includes:
The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users.
Now, where this all gets ironic is the drumbeat for donations. I have several extensions I use in Firefox and a couple of them make heartfelt, earnest pleas for money, after all, they spend considerable time creating the software. If I visit open source software sites that aren’t currently backed by a commercial company, 90% of the time they are asking/accepting donations (if the product is any good and widely used).
So … which is it? Is it free or do you want money for it?
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2007
janschneider.de - Horde Groupware bundles finally out
by mbertier
(via)
The two bundles, Horde Groupware and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition, have finally been released. This is about the current status and some future roadmaps
2006
About Horde
by springnet
The Horde Project is about creating high quality Open Source applications, based on PHP and the Horde Framework.
