HP tools help put open source in the datacentre
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| HP has also added Xen and guest operating system support for Debian to its
| recently launched HP Partner Virtualisation Programme, and now allows Linux
| users to run HP Integrity servers using its pay-per-use pricing.
|
| Under the Pay-Per-Use (PPU) flexible pricing structure for Linux running on
| HP Integrity servers, computing capacity is available to users, who are then
| billed for only what they use. The addition of Linux completes the PPU
| offering across all operating systems on the HP Integrity platform, including
| HP-UX, Windows and OpenVMS.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/07/226053/hp-tools-help-put-open-source-in-the-datacentre.htm
Eroding the meaning of “open source”, IBM-style
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| While the term “open source” was not actually used in the latest
| announcement, the connection is there to be made and any confusion does not
| hinder IBM’s cause. The same could be said of Microsoft choice of the
| phrase “Office Open XML”.
|
| While IBM contributes more to the open source ‘ecosystem’, like Microsoft it
| is attempting to use open source as a foundation for selling more commercial
| products. If you’re going to discriminate against one for doing so, you have
| to discriminate against both.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/eroding_the_mea.html
Related:
Microsoft not so 'open' after all?
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| Head of open-source group says more than half of licenses don't pass muster
|
| [...]
|
| Michael Tiemann, president of the non-profit Open Source Initiative, said
| that provisions in three out of five of Microsoft's shared-source licenses
| that restrict source code to running only on the Windows operating system
| would contravene a fundamental tenet of open-source licenses as laid out by
| the OSI. By those rules, code must be free for anyone to view, use, modify as
| they see fit.
|
| [...]
|
| By his count, the OSI has rejected "two dozen" or so license applications for
| language that restricted the use or redistribution of software and its source
| code, even when the restrictions were written with what Tiemann
| called "moral" intent. For instance, the OSI has rejected license
| applications from Quakers and other pacifists who sought to prevent the use
| of software for weapons such as landmines.
|
| "I am highly sympathetic to that point of view," he said. "But the OSI is not
| in the business of legislating moral use. We allow all use, commercial or
| non-commercial, mortal or medical."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028318&intsrc=news_ts_head
Reverse-Halloween: The Marketing Checkbox Strategy
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| Getting Microsoft software licenses OSI-approved and similarly getting
| Microsoft's proprietary document formats approved at ISO are like painting an
| old Chevrolet.
|
| [...]
|
| This may be enough to satisfy the enterprise customer that he is achieving
| something different. Clearly, the substance is no different: it's a lock-in
| in sheep's clothing.
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/the-marketing-c.html
Merging "Open Source" and "Free Software"
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| Of course, they are not. Other Shared Source licenses may very well be too
| restrictive to be considered Open Source. But, Microsoft may conveniently
| divert the attention from this little detail to the fact that *some* of
| Shared Source licenses are Open Source.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/merging_open_source_and_free_software
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