FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails

[Kevin Kempter]

---- For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:42 -0500, Kevin Kempter wrote:
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> > Your comments about forcing people to give away their work indicates that you don't understand the concepts and philosiphy of open source development and and open source business models. Poke around on the web for examples of open source business models and if you can pick up a copy of the book: "The Cathederal and the Bazaar". This may help...
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> I have indeed read it and I don't see how that applies to my comments.
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> Craig
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The point is you don't get to "own" the source code - ever. The source code is owned by the community. This is the basis for open source software. No-one ever gets to move ownership from the community to their own domain. This allows for the community to make great strides in software development and stability. This means that any commercial ventures must find revenue streams outside of the "rent my binaries" model, thus the cash for services model seems the most realistic.

If a company could take open source code and declare that it's now closed source due to the most recent additions that the company added then the entire model breaks down since the community looses any incentive to make better source code if that same code could at any time be declared closed source based on the work that the community started. Which seems reasonable to me.

Just my .02 cents...