<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'>Hi,<br><br>one way is to protect developers and their open source software products,<br>another is to provide FSF with extra financing from embedded hardware manufactures, incorporating Linux based software solutions.<br>In each case there is a need for calculations, assessment of open source software development costs, charges, fees, basing on some real life examples.<br><br>For TomTom and others, once developed Linux applications can generate millions, duplicated with each car navigation device sold.<br><br>Others, like Approsoftware.com, sell open source Linux based software as a commercial<br>product bundled with hardware lock key.<br><br>One way to go is to ask developers and discover, how much money they expect to get,<br>if any, from manufacturers of embedded hardware devices, appliances.<br>Linux Thorvald is the right person to speak to and ask for proposals and
solutions.<br><br>Linux based open source applications wre ok for open hardware PC computers.<br>Today any laptop/palmtop can run hardware locked Linux based open source applications,<br>sold as a commercial product.<br><br>It's up to developers of any such application in development tree to request or not some form of gratification for his/her job/work and input in the final product.<br><br>In intellectual property transfer business, one good idea gets patented and earns a lot of money and the alike idea is published for free on the net at the same time and generates no profit to its author at all.<br><br>As any part of source code has its author, unfortunately no signature affixed in text file form<br>I have setup <br>Open Source Software - Google group<br>http://groups.google.com/group/opensource2<br><br>authors, developers of open source code, applications, can post their respective<br>input in development of the Linux based open source
code, applications,<br>claiming their rights to be covered by the New Global Alliance, given signed one day.<br>New Global Alliance in Open Source Software,<br>representing developers, coders on one side,<br>manufacturers of Linux based hardware embedded devices, appliances, systems<br>and FSF, Linus and others volunteering their work, time<br>any such Open Source Software New Global Alliance to be concluded.<br><br>It is not good to have open source applications, developments offered for free to download<br>and at the same time offered as a commercial product at a "reasonable fee".<br><br>It's a good business idea to have free workers in IT business to work for free but it is not fair to offer their product for fee , as a commercial product.<br><br>Linux based open source software has a status of community effort, work<br>and there is no need to let few make really big money, basing on work donated by the community for the community for
free.<br><br>Darius<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 8/5/08, David Bolter <i><david.bolter@utoronto.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: David Bolter <david.bolter@utoronto.ca><br>Subject: Re: Open Source Software New Global Alliance - proposal<br>To: dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie<br>Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org<br>Date: Thursday, 8 May, 2008, 3:48 PM<br><br><pre>How do we proceed?<br><br>cheers,<br>David<br>Darius Jack wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I contacted FSF and was contacted by FSF recently<br>> and there is a growing demand for a new global alliance on open source <br>> software.<br>> As business of Linux based embedded hardware devices is already worth <br>> billions $<br>> - WiFi APs, routers, servers,<br>> GPS car navigation,<br>> car audio systems<br>> digital tv boxes<br>> control - security equipment<br>> house
appliances<br>> and more and more to be added with every day<br>> Free Software Foundation has a real problem to coordinate licensing of<br>> GNU open source software products worldwide, globe-wide.<br>><br>> There is a growing number of firms, companies, selling GNU open source <br>> software products<br>> as commercial software products, integrating any such add-on GNU open <br>> source software with hardware lock key.<br>> As this trend is growing and there is no way to stop it<br>> a new global alliance for open source software products is<br>> what is needed urgently.<br>><br>> There is no way to go to courts with violations of GNU open source <br>> licenses<br>> due to legal costs and court charges involved.<br>><br>> Developers of GNU open source software have been working hard for <br>> years, working for the community and today, their job and work is made <br>> commercial software product
by others<br>> and offered for more than 1 US$ on a market.<br>><br>> So there is a need a new global alliance to solve the problem of <br>> financing of<br>> open source software developers as money for sold Linux based open <br>> source software products in hardware embedded devices (TomTom and <br>> others) goes in millions per day.<br>><br>> Darius<br>> f.IT forensic expert<br>><br>><br>> Send instant messages to your online friends <br>> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com<br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> maemo-developers mailing list<br>> maemo-developers@maemo.org<br>> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers<br>></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com