[OLPC library] Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

[Edward Cherlin]

Hey, you idiots, no bickering in front of the donor!!!!!

On Feb 5, 2008 4:22 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> 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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