> Imagine a world without frontiers when nothing it is imported and everything is just from "one world".
Is it joke? Look at Europe Union, one economical zone. Yes, Germany, Netherlands live in prosperity, but Eastern Europe, Greece, Spain automatically become poor. If introduce import taxes between EU member again, then South/East countries will restore their economical state.
The frontiers are important and will exist forever.
> ACPI is based from an open source software (non-copyleft), Qt, OpenOffice, etc... everything is important.
Green corridor:
* Qt is the runtime, library. It should be ported.
* ACPI is the driver. it should be ported.
Red corridor:
* Qt GUI apps
* Windows GUI apps (Odin )
Red corridor exceptions:
* OpenOffice is the end-user, GUI applications, it's bad that it is ported. As result, 0 native editors, office suites. On the other side, there is no analogue, so it may be ported, income should be forwarded to native software
* Firefox. no analogues, => may be ported, it's difficult take taxes.
> Now you start saying that Open Source is a fiasco on eComstation.ru?
No, I say that open source is a form to achieve the goal, not the goal.
There are other tasks and goals, and open sourcing is used since 90-th already.
> I think I'm making a mistake giving you so much space.
There is not problems here, the moderators remove my messages from this forum periodically.
Moreover, you need critics. If you are going visit OS/2 events (conferences) and talk with other users and developers, you will listen that other people don't understand your plan of Open Sourcing. As I said: To develop open source apps you need 1000x more money that to develop semi-commercial software. People (european developers) don't understand where are you going find financial resources?
I will repeat one more time: To develop open source software you should spend millions dollars. To develop semi-commercial eComStation you can spend N thousand dollars. The investors/sponsors of eCS didn't had millions, they had restricted resources, that's why eCS is not open-source.