Twisting the Meaning of 'Free'
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| According to CESC Ltd chief information officer Subroto Das, “There is
| nothing called free software”. I beg to differ.
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| In an article titled, Free software wars re-ignite (warning: many pop-ups),
| Indranil Chakraborty writes about the continuing war between the Free/Open
| Source Software movement and the non-free software camp. It really has not
| re-ignited; it continues.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/node/30
SpikeSource To Certify Open Source Apps on Windows
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| In another trip down the rabbit hole to where things are odd indeed,
| SpikeSource, Kim Polese's open source stack operation, is going to certify
| all of its SpikeIgnited open source applications on Windows.
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http://wireless.sys-con.com/read/411776_p.htm
Related:
Do Microsoft's licenses stand a chance of OSI approval?
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| the OSI has been actively trying to reduce license proliferation and it could
| be that Microsoft’s licenses are seen as too similar to existing licenses to
| warrant separate approval.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/07/do_microsofts_l.html
Microsoft Inches Closer to Open Source
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| On the software side, Microsoft today announced a partnership with open
| source solution vendor SpikeSource to eventually certify all of SpikeSource's
| SpikeIgnited solutions on the Microsoft Windows platform.
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| The move could make dozens of popular open source solutions available to
| Windows users in a fully supported manner. SpikeSource solutions include the
| gambit of content management, CRM and collaboration solutions. The first
| SpikeIgnited solution being made Windows-certified is the Drupal content
| management solution. Throughout the second half of 2007, SpikeSource plans on
| rolling out additional offerings.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3691071
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
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| [...]
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| 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
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| 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.
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| [...]
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| 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.
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| "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
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