Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of
>>>>>> Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Outstanding.
>>>>
>>>> Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be hard to
>>>> work out...
>>>
>>> We can always use Wine, no?
>>
>> As if Chessmaster is the only chess program in the world....
>
>
> You're right, it isnt. However, it is a *Good Thing* (TM) when closed source
> apps from closed source corpos are released as OSS, both for the corpo, us,
> and OSS in general, it attracts more attention and sends out a "Hey, maybe
> this OS stuff isn't that bad" to other corpos.

Yup!

>> Don't get me wrong - it's a nice gesture.  I just imagine that activity 
>> developers would choose to wrap an existing Free Software, GNU/Linux 
>> chess program before they get around to packaging up Chessmaster.
>
> Yet _more_ GPL'd software is better.

Absolutely.  And maybe they have some neat tricks in their computer 
players!

I do seriously mean it's a nice gesture. (-:

-- Asheesh.

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