Souverainist Software
Having a discussion with Open Source enthousiasts yesterday, we ended up talking about how the rest of the world, especially english Canada and United States, saw Quebec and how it always turned down to the souverainist movement. A french speaker talking to an english canadian about Free Software has to be talking about separation of Quebec.
We ended up laughing about the term Souverainist Software and found that it actually had a real meaning. It’s a proprietary software that wants to become Open Source! Quite a few applications get opened. IBM donated Cloudscape a few months ago, which is now known as Apache Derby. An other good example of Souverainist Software is Java. Currently the sources are closed, but many people would like to see them Open and there have been many discussions on the topic in the past few months.