[scribus] Is Linux/Scribus viable? (was New Linux User...)

[Jeffrey Silverman]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Hal V. Engel <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 10 August 2008 09:53:44 pm Peter Nermander wrote:
>> That is part of the "freedom", there is no legal or practical reason that
>> you can not tailor Open Source software to you needs, the limit is just
>> finacial. And a lot of companies do that, they pay developers to work on
>> Open Source software to get the software to fit into their distribution.
>> Then they sell their distribution bundled with support.
>
> One example is CUPS*.  Much of the work that happens to CUPS is paid for by
> Apple because it is an integral part of OS/X.  Even though much of OS/X is
> closed some parts of it are open and Apples $ spent on those parts benifits
> everyone.
<snip!>

Not to split hairs here[1], but CUPS has been around for well over a
decade. Apple only bought CUPS a year or two ago. A better example
might be Darwin, the OS X kernel, which, IIRC, is Open Source.



[1]What the hell, let's split hairs.


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Jeff Silverman
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