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[Fsfe-uk] OSS Supporters - Was Re: Expo
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Martyn Ranyard |
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[Fsfe-uk] OSS Supporters - Was Re: Expo |
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Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:53:53 +0100 |
At 10:42 AM 10/14/02 +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
Hello Folks,
I run one of a number of small to medium sized companies who want to
provide support for Free Software to other companies.
To help us all I have set up a directory of these companies to be found at
the URL below.
Good work, and I will be registering our company, but I have the following
initial feedback :
1) Open Source is not necessarily Free - Free Software is what AFFS / FSFE
are about, maybe you should think of making it the Free Software support list.
2) Your list of "Open Source" projects is very limited - I have added a
list at the end of this mail of suggestions.
3) Areas of expertise - obviously for example "setting up a RAID server
with cd/dvdwriting centralised printing/scanning/faxing/pdf-creation" isn't
a piece of software, but done within Free Software i.e. GNU/Linux, Samba
and Ghostscript is a complex task, and it's the integration that is
needed. Okay, I'm explaining our company's niche here, but to get people
onboard, they need to be able to sell themselves.
I briefly said hello to the people at the stand at the Linux expo and
chatted about the directory. The person I chatted to said that others were
interested in starting a similar directory. I'd be quite happy to discuss
sharing the workload (and the Kudos). Perhaps we can set things up so that
the database can mirrored on other companies' websites?
I'm sure we can mirror it.
Comments people? Is this an ok topic to discuss on this list?
I would imagine that aside from the reservations about the use of the OSS
term, it would be on-topic, but not for "Re: Expo"
Alex McLintock
List of Free Software we use (Obviously incomplete, in no particular order,
and not sure if all are Free, I'm doing this off the top of my head):
Samba; netatalk; GhostScript; APSFilter; Bind; Postfix; Sendmail; Qmail;
Sane; OpenSSL; OpenSSH; FreeS/WAN; KDE; Gnome; VNC (not Free afaik);
Cygwin; Transcode; FFMpeg; mplayer/mencoder; Plex86; raidtools; XFS;
ReiserFS; ext3; FreePascal; Lazarus; PostgreSQL; MySQL; NUT; Gimp;
ImageMagick; bash; Python; ipchains; iptables; sox; Horde; I give up, I
can't think of any more, my brain is fried.
-
Martyn Ranyard
Free Software Advocate
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