General > Discussion

Tiny poll about what do actually contributing mean

(1/4) > >>

krilain:
Hello,

I don't know if it is of any interest for the largest number (it would require a poll to know that!) but I heard about poll in another topic and slowly the idea was born for me to (try to) make some about the "contributing" question.

I could'nt do it with the forum tool because here is involved multiple questions. So I took some of my day to make it as a dedicated page. Here is the link : http://krillpoll.jigsy.com/.

I hoped I could get some of you curious enougth to take a look at this poll. If enough people participate I'd make a summary chart here as soon as relevant (there is already an automated chart generated there, but not including the whole poll).

Let me know what you think anyway.

geever:
I read through the poll (haven't yet filled) and I have to say the good it started the bad it ended. It feels like you got tired when writing it. The second half of the questions is degraded to a) black b) white which isn't good (even if black/white are not refer too good/bad but other opposites).

I also have to mention that the fact that the game is released under GNU GPL v2+ doesn't make it a GNU project neither have any connections between them. Also GNU isn't equal with Open Source Software either, so question 9 is simply silly (which is another black or white one anyway).

I hope you get my note as a constructive criticism as intended.

-geever

krilain:
Thanks Geever you for those clever remarks. That's all of great interest. And thanks for the people who filled anyway this imperfect form.

I would even answer you more in detail.  You are right when you say that binary answers are poorly significant. The fact that I had to try many webpolls providers and got finally tired to test may be a reason. But at least I can now improve the content with the help of the first results and comments.

Then about the GNU question. It is in fact very difficult to get exactly what it is about in general because it can be used for so many things. Just for the fun, I released this poll itself under GNU GPL, so that I should name you the first contributor to this project ;)

Ok, but you pushed forward some very good questions. In fact that's difficult to distinguish between a GNU project and a GNU software. It is also not immediate to see when a software released under GNU is not at all opensource, or is so but under a restricted meaning. I think about what happened to Openoffice. I didn't understand exactly how, but now only LibreOffice, a fork, remains GNU in its unrestricted meaning.

I will watch about changing the binary questions. Good night.

Sandro:
You have got GNU and GPL mixed up (as was intended by mr. Stallman, I guess).

Anarch Cassius:
GNU is an organization, a Unix-like operating system, and the name of a license put out by the GNU organization. GNU GPL is the license in question.

Free software is a term GNU people like to use instead of open source, it has a slightly more specific meaning but all "free software" is a subset of "open source" software. The differences are minor aside from connotations of the word.

OpenOffice is free and open source. It's main branch is controlled by Oracle though, OpenLibre is a community run fork. It would be like if a bunch of people wanted self-bandaging so badly they forked UFO:AI and made UFO:Self-Med and maintained it themselves. That would be totally unnecessary with UFO because of the modding options of course but you get the idea.

UFO:AI has nothing to do with GNU except using the GPL license, at least that I know of.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page