restindex encoding: utf8 template-encoding: utf8 crumb: Credits /restindex .. credits.txt -- site credits Copyright © martin f. krafft Released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Part of the source code for the site http://people.debian.org/~madduck/ svn: http://svn.madduck.net/pub/debian/web/people.debian.org--madduck/ Site credits ============ This site was built with a number of open-source software products. I feel it is important to give enough credit to the involved people, who spend their free time developing and supporting these software suites. Open-source software has numerous advantages over proprietary, commercial products: - It is developed by users of the software, not people trying to make money by selling it. As a direct consequence, it doesn't suffer from the marketing syndrome, and it provides the features that users need, not those which the company wants to sell. - The source code is available to everyone. Not only does this mean that anyone can modify the product to better suit their needs, it also greatly facilitates problem-solving, since one can inspect the source of any problem. - Open-source software has a large community using and supporting it. Direct help from the developers is absolutely no rarity, and if they are not available, then numerous (experienced) users are ready to help one, and to work with one to solve any problems. - And last, but very much not least: Open-source software is free. No complicated and capitalistic licensing models, no "software assurance" or similarly flawed license subscriptions, no problems with upgrades, and a lot more money left for other things. As said, this site was created with a number of open-source software suites. In particular, I would like to thank: - The `Debian`_ team for the operating system (who would have thought?). Debian is copyright © by `Software in the Public Interest`_. .. _Debian: http://debian.org .. _Software in the Public Interest: http://spi-inc.org - The `Python`_ team for the programming language. Python is copyright © by the `Python Software Foundation`_ .. _Python: http://python.org .. _Python Software Foundation: http://python.org/psf - Michael Foord for `rest2web`_, the site builder framework. rest2web is © by `Voidspace`_. .. _rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/ .. _Voidspace: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ - The `Apache`_ team for the web server. Apache is copyright © by the `Apache Software Foundation`_. .. _Apache: http://httpd.apache.org .. _Apache Software Foundation: http://apache.org/foundation/