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1. Bradley M. Kuhn

   @otter, Interesting idea. It's similar to an oft-proposed different idea: "rating" companies on the proprietary/software freedom divide.

   Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:22:47 UTC from web
   • Alison Chaiken Linux Outlaws Podcast

     @bkuhn Even e**l companies can contribute: Lennart P. spoke of systemd inspiration by uber-E**l Apple in chat with Fab !lo from #GUADEC

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:27:40 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Alison Chaiken

     @alisonchaiken, Yeah, although it's tough when FLOSS always much play catch-up to proprietary stuff. I like Lennart's #SystemD project, BTW

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:29:08 UTC
   • Alison Chaiken

     @bkuhn I've heard Apple contributes code to GCC. Apple and Oracle prolly have lots of FLOSS contributors. Apple supports CUPS & zfs too

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:38:18 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Alison Chaiken

     @alisonchaiken, #Apple *used* to contribute to #GCC. They've moved engineers from it over to #LLVM. Apple *owns* CUPS: different thing.

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:40:52 UTC
   • Alison Chaiken

     @bkuhn CUPS is not !FaiF? How did it get in my #Fedora default install then? Is there no !FaiF alternative?

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:41:57 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The GNU General Public License , Alison Chaiken

     @alisonchaiken,CUPS was !GPL'd. #Apple hated that. Apple bought all copyrights on it & hired dev. CUPS is not a community project. #OpenCore

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:43:09 UTC
   • Ingolf Schaefer

     @bkuhn CUPS is not OpenCore.

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:45:31 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Ingolf Schaefer

     @ovidius,"#CUPS not #Open_Core" are you sure? They own all © & accept no outside contributions,right? Are my facts wrong? (asking seriously)

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:49:36 UTC
   • Ingolf Schaefer

     @bkuhn Ok,then it is as OpenCore as QT was before.I'm thinking of OpenCore as an open core plus proprietary premium addons, which CUPS isn't

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:55:02 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Ingolf Schaefer

     @ovidius, IMO ∃ a spectrum: "healthy multi-contributor community" to "worst #Open_Core style imaginable". CUPS & Qt lean toward latter side.

     Tuesday, 03-Aug-10 18:57:31 UTC