Well, then we have luck that you do not define what open source is :)<br>There's a official definition of open source: <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd">http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd</a><br>Thanks to all guys in the whole open source scene.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/8/3, wim delvaux <<a href="mailto:wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com">wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 03 August 2007 17:14:36 Ian Darwin wrote:<br>> Tim Milliken wrote:<br>> > I am looking into joining in on this project. Welcome aboard!<br>><br>> Welcome aboard!<br>><br>> > I am a windows programmer
<br>> ><br>> > and know almost nothing about Linux. Where should I start? Can anyone<br>> > give me some starting points on getting started. Like do I have to be<br>> > running Linux as a host development OS?
<br>><br>> While it is in theory possible to develop on other *NIX-like OSes than<br>> Linux (such as BSD), I believe it would be a major amount of work. Doing<br>> so on Windows is probably beyond the capabilities of most individuals.
<br>><br>> > I am really lost but very<br>> > interested in this. I have thought about running Win CE 6.0 sine it is<br>> > kinda like and opensource, MS now includes the all the source for 6.0.<br>>
<br>> Really? Allow me to ask a rhetorical question: Where can I download the<br>> complete source of Wince without paying anything, without signing<br>> anything and without confirming any license agreement? If I can't, it
<br>> is not anything like "open source". :-)<br><br>well for me 'open source' does not mean GPL. 'Open source' for me means the<br>source is available to you and you can modify it but it does not give you the
<br>right to do what you want with it.<br><br>GPL that is another story. It allows you to explicitely do what you want with<br>it (to some extent)<br><br>Mind you IANAL<br><br>><br>> Seriously, there is no reason you could not run another OS (like Wince),
<br>> but you should not expect people on this list to divert from what<br>> they're doing to help you.<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OpenMoko community mailing list
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