Xerox Cooperates with the Savannah Project

An anonymous reader submits: "The Savannah site (the Free Software sequel of SourceForge) has just announced a much enhanced Bug Tracking System contributed by Xerox. From the news it sounds like Xerox has engaged into an internal source code sharing initiative based on the SourceForge platform and it has decided to contribute all their changes to the Savannah project ..."

Laurent Julliard

[larry bagina]

FYI, Laurent Julliard [xerox.com] is a xerox employee and open source advocate. He used to work at HP and got them to use linux for some stuff.

He's done work with mozilla, objective C/GNUStep, ruby, and even created a french Linux users group.

Hooray for Laurent!

Xerox helps GNU some more ;)

[wahgnube]

According to what I read in Free as in Freedom [oreilly.com], one of the (major?) influences that drove RMS to originate the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project was Xerox's reluctance to share the source for their laser printer software.
First that and now this? Boy do they love free software :).

So in other words

[duffbeer703]

Xerox found SourceForge "Enterprise" Edition to be a complete joke and waste of money.

I'm not suprised. I would have difficulty convincing my managment to spend money on a product that uses stupid star wars and lord of the rings jokes in a pathetic attempt to sell itself.