{"id":396,"date":"2008-07-07T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2008-07-07T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:42:06","slug":"nordic-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/nordic-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"“Nordic” Projects?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It did struck me why the idea of handing the Nordic Free Software Award<\/a> to a project feels like a bad idea: Free Software projects really aren’t geographical in general.<\/p>\n

People tend to live at a fixed location for a specific time and thus you can say that N is living in a Nordic country or not.<\/p>\n

Free Software projects however, are not even allowed to exclude people from other places and even projects that may origin at once place or even have its largest user-base in a particular geographical spot.<\/p>\n

Last year’s Nordic Free Software Award was handed to Skolelinux<\/a> since I believe the project origins in Norway (a nordic country) and some of the leading persons in the project are Norwegian. But is that then a nordic project? I don’t want to claim that it isn’t because I honestly don’t know, but their web site certainly says nothing about it being restricted or limited to nordic countries in any significant way. If it does, I couldn’t find it.<\/p>\n

I am the primary person and maintainer behind curl<\/a> but I wouldn’t dream of calling it a “nordic” project. The trio who started Rockbox<\/a> are all Swedish but calling it a nordic project would just make me laugh.<\/p>\n

Isn’t it so, that if you can come up with a “Nordic” Free Software project that currently only lives and strives within one or more Nordic countries without spreading itself over the world, isn’t that then more likely to be a proof of a failure<\/strong> of said project than anything else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It did struck me why the idea of handing the Nordic Free Software Award to a project feels like a bad idea: Free Software projects really aren’t geographical in general. People tend to live at a fixed location for a specific time and thus you can say that N is living in a Nordic country … Continue reading “Nordic” Projects?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[227,33,205,19,416],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floss","tag-award","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-fscons","tag-open-source","tag-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}