Pendulum has swung in the open source debate
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| Once upon a time, the term "open source" was coined to save the free-software
| world from itself--or, rather, from the free-software zealots, as you can
| read on the Open Source Initiative's Web site.
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| Today, I can't help but feel that the pendulum has swung in the opposite
| direction, where we're so self-satisfied with the money we're making off open
| source that we have neglected the essential freedoms that make open-source
| profit possible.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9752966-7.html
Open Source is no Web 2.0
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| It is time we stop the term open source from getting hijacked. I recently
| wrote about how tech media doesn’t get open source. The events in the last
| week or so have confirmed my thesis further.
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| [...]
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| It is time for saner elements in the open source world to wake up and stop
| the abuse of the term open source by the tech media and companies like
| Microsoft. If we don’t do it now, the only other alternative is the free
| software movement and the business community may not be able to leverage the
| freedom offered by the free software then.
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http://www.krishworld.com/blog/open-source/open-source-is-no-web-20
Here comes Jack Schofield betting for Microsoft (this one isn't too terrible).
Microsoft and open source are unlikely bedfellows
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| Either way, if GPL v3 exacerbates the split in the free/open source world,
| it's a good time for Microsoft to get cosy with the OSI side while trying to
| avoid Stallman's FSF side. This may sound unlikely, because many people in
| the open software camp appear to define themselves by their hatred for
| Microsoft. But it wouldn't be the first proprietary company to get itself
| accepted. IBM has already made a similar transition.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/02/guardianweeklytechnologysection.it2
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