Launchpad.net proprietary?

[earobinson]

Back on topic, who wrote launchpad.net. to me if it is infact closed source this is a huge contradiction of what ubuntu stands for, they wont even include rar or anything but the major bug reporting site is closed source, man thats bad.

[xequence]

Originally Posted by nocturn First question: why not? Sure it will take a while and requires big changes. Secondly, Stallman is not requiring anyone to do that (though he would like it). He just takes a very firm stand on some thinks being closed or non-free.

Why should Stallman care if Lauchpad is proprietary?

And its just the way the world is. Open source works in many ways, but also closed source works in many ways.

Stallman should tell people the advantages of open source so they can decide if they want their application to be open source or not.

[poofyhairguy]

Originally Posted by earobinson Back on topic, who wrote launchpad.net.

Half of the Ubuntu developers wrote Launchpad itself.

to me if it is infact closed source this is a huge contradiction of what ubuntu stands for, they wont even include rar or anything but the major bug reporting site is closed source, man thats bad.

It that way for a reason....some think that this is how Mark plans to make money off of Ubuntu. With the ability to control lauchpad you have the ability to (kinda) control forks. So if you really want an Ubuntu fork you must pay to use launchpad.

But that is just speculation for now, and Mark says he will open launchpad one day.

[asv]

It seems very odd to me that Canonical is saying that they will release it some day. Why not release it now? Its certainly stable enough to be considered a beta release.

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[commodore]

Stallman doesn't promote open-source!! He promotes free software (which is open-source+ other goodies).
Bashing Stallman is totally wrong IMO. He has done SO much. He's a very, very good guy.

[earobinson]

Originally Posted by poofyhairguy Half of the Ubuntu developers wrote Launchpad itself. It that way for a reason....some think that this is how Mark plans to make money off of Ubuntu. With the ability to control lauchpad you have the ability to (kinda) control forks. So if you really want an Ubuntu fork you must pay to use launchpad. But that is just speculation for now, and Mark says he will open launchpad one day.

Couldent you just fork and use bugzilla, maybe im being stupid, then watch lanuchpad for when updates come out and include them?

any reasons other than mark making money.

[poofyhairguy]

Originally Posted by earobinson Couldent you just fork and use bugzilla, maybe im being stupid, then watch lanuchpad for when updates come out and include them?

Maybe. Thats why its not a certain lock. But that way is much harder than using lauchpad.

[briancurtin]

Originally Posted by asv It seems very odd to me that Canonical is saying that they will release it some day. Why not release it now? Its certainly stable enough to be considered a beta release. u

from what this thread has talked about, it has nothing to do with stability

[majikstreet]

it'd be nice for them to release it..

anyway.. I think we should cut the damn stallman talk right now... sooooo off topic lol.

[christhemonkey]

Sorry to sound stupid, but whos stallman?
actually, im probably better googling it! never mind!