Evolution of a 100% Free Software-Based Publisher

NewsForge (also owned by VA) has a quick and interesting look at the evolution of a 100% free software-based Italian publisher. From the article: "Today, Sovilla acknowledges that choosing a 100% free software workflow complicated his working life. He also notes, however, that a great part of his troubles came from an early start, at a time when programs such as Scribus weren't mature enough yet. Today, he says, the situation has improved considerably, and publishers who are willing to experiment with an alternative software platform can, and should, try it without fear."

Not 100% good

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear they don't provide source code for their books. The use some proprietary language called "Italian."

Did you know?

[Anonymous Coward]

Italian is an OO version of Latin and you can overload most methods in Italian by waving your hands about wildly.

Actually...

[WilliamSChips]

Latin is open source as well, it has many forks such as Spanish, French, and Italian, and even has parts of its code present in English. Latin included many innovative features, such as the ablative case. You could do almost *anything* with that. A pity all the modern languages find ablative "too hard for newbies" and no longer include it.

Re:Actually...

[kfg]

Real people learn Latin.

Well, yeah, they learn it because the PHTWs (Pointy Haired Toga Wearers) require it, but real men code in Phoenician, or maybe Classical Attic Greek if they want to feel "cutting edge."

There are still a few long haired, bearded, sandal wearing Cuneiform coders, but Jesus, they should get with the times. Modern hardware makes that short of dirty business pointless.

KFG

Re:Such Is The Story With Linux

[Javaman59]

and does not really cost all that much when compared to all the business you lost when wasting time fighting with Linux.

You won't have lost that much business if you do your fighting with Linux out of hours. That's what free time is for!

Should read...

[PixelScuba]

Intelligent Design of a 100% free Software-Based Publisher.

What?

Re:Actually...

[njh]

I always found the ablative case a bit wearing.

Re:Actually...

[menace3society]

Feh, I have more cases than you've had years of schooling.

-- Finnish

Re:Gramer and speling nazi

[daverabbitz]

Maybe it was intentional, but you spelt grammar and spelling wrong.

Re:Actually...

[Fizzl]

Sanoisin suoralta kädeltä että tämä ei pidä paikkaansa. ;)