The long hard road to open source
,----[ Quote ]
| Of course Microsoft is not endorsing the larger and more challenging free
| software philosophy of Richard Stallman, whose GNU General Public License
| (GPL) places more stringent conditions on the software it covers than it
| could ever accept.
|
| As Stallman puts it, "open source is a development methodology; free software
| is a social movement. For the free software movement, free software is an
| ethical imperative, because only free software respects the users' freedom".
`----
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6922507.stm
Open to Misinterpretation
,----[ Quote ]
| The great majority of the better known and more successful "open source"
| projects are released under the GPL, and can be described accurately as
| free software. JBoss (now owned by Red Hat), for instance, has always
| described itself as "professional open source" but has released its
| software under Free Software Foundation (FSF) licenses.
|
| An accidental side effect of the popularity of "open source" has been
| a proliferation of licenses that describe themselves as "open
| source", some of which aren't necessarily compatible with each other
| and may or may not be recognised by the OSI, and many of which contain
| proprietorial clauses that don't always work to the advantage of the
| licensors or the licensees.
|
| The term "open source" has at times been misused by companies who want
| to gain the benefits of a wider developer community.
`----
http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/251
Watch Microsoft shoving more of its anti-ODF venom...
Microsoft updates Office Open XML converter
,----[ Quote ]
| A new beta of Microsoft's Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac adds
| PowerPoint support.
`----
http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13796&Itemid=1054
|
|
