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Subject: Re: [ModularSynthPanels] fpd 4.0 mac / open source finally

From: Samppa Tolvanen <samppa.tolvanen@...>
Date: 2010-04-18

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joe Miklojcik <jfm3@...> wrote:
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>
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> Many times people mistake "Open Source" to mean "runs on Linux ∗AND∗
> MacOS." Nothing could be further from the truth. I often go to
> people who make this mistake and tell them politely what they got
> wrong about the phrase "Open Source". They usually then tell me that
> it's not like "Open Source" is a clearly defined term in the first
> place. Of course, it ∗is∗ a clearly defined term.
>
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
>
> I sincerely hope there's a source release of FPD 4.0. Think of how
> much more business those companies would do if FPD came included with
> every major Linux distribution?
>

Hmm.. I never thought it that way. I was thinking how much losses it
would make? People making a font driver better than for the included
Autocad fonts and making export to DXF possible.. way baby, they could
even include FPD export or even printing solution to use with other OS
applications.

Samppa