In Defense Of Open Source
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| Naysayers position open source as a sort of geeky pleasure that’s best
| reserved only for unwedded twenty- and thirty-something males residing in
| basements owned by parental figures. That the Linux platform is the product
| of a wide network of hobbyists. That the solutions which subsist within the
| Linux system are not worth equal attention to big-name products from firms
| like Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and others.
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http://www.profy.com/2007/08/30/in-defense-of-open-source/
Astaro "paved the way" for VC-funded open source companies
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| "Back then, to base a business on products built using Linux and open source
| was a fairly new idea. We were out in the market for fundraising and venture
| capital, but the investors we talked to were very averse to the idea that
| with open source that you would not own your intellectual property. Our
| employees got the idea, and the customers loved it, but the investing
| community seemed allergic to open source. We were forced to bootstrap for two
| or three years until we could show traction."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118780
Meet Mark Radcliffe: The man who rules open source law
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| Matters such as SCO's Linux assault and Microsoft's hints of legal action
| against open source software makers and users tend to dominate the public
| discourse around open source code.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/30/open_source_mark_radcliffe/
Related:
Top 5 Linux Myths
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| The sheer ignorance regarding casual Linux users astounds me to no end. While
| I'm not interested in pointing fingers, there is a lot of misinformation
| about the Linux community, and we will help to dispel some of these myths,
| once and for all.
|
| 1. Linux Users Are Cheap. Ah, this is one of my favorites. It seems that
| Linux users have long since been seen as cheap, despite the fact that so many
| of them in the States earn up to six figures. First, define cheap? Are we
| cheap because we choose not to buy brand new everything with every release of
| our selected OS?
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2618&Itemid=449
Top 5 Linux Myths
,----[ Quote ]
| The sheer ignorance regarding casual Linux users astounds me to no end. While
| I'm not interested in pointing fingers, there is a lot of misinformation
| about the Linux community, and we will help to dispel some of these myths,
| once and for all.
|
| 1. Linux Users Are Cheap. Ah, this is one of my favorites. It seems that
| Linux users have long since been seen as cheap, despite the fact that so many
| of them in the States earn up to six figures. First, define cheap? Are we
| cheap because we choose not to buy brand new everything with every release of
| our selected OS?
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2618&Itemid=449
Web Content 2007: 7 Open Source Myths: Busted!
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| Open source licenses allow for free redistribution of the software
| including the source code and depending on the specific license,
| can allow the user to derive works from that software. Companies
| may choose to open source their software to slash distribution costs,
| and instead profit from support licenses and/or selling a
| “professional” or “enterprise” version of the software.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/open-source-cms/web-content-2007-7-open-source-myths-busted-001391.php#8454534891915636916
Linux Truths, Half-Truths, and Myths
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| When people find out I run Linux on my computer instead of Windows
| or even Mac OS X they sometimes have funny ideas about what it must
| be like. Some of it is historical; Linux used to be quite difficult
| to administer in its younger days. Some of it is misinformation,
| or no information at all. I hope to dispell some of the
| misconceptions.
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/03/05/161203.php
SCO on the brink of financial collapse
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| The company's share price had closed at $1.56 on Friday ahead of a court
| ruling that Novell, and not SCO, was the rightful owner of the copyrights for
| the Unix operating system. The price remained steady in early trading,
| however, valuing the company at about $9.5m.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=12A15472-0D2D-4B86-8121-992AEA422BBB
Can Microsoft get its $12 million back from SCO?
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| Microsoft played matchmaker back in 2003 when SCO needed money to help fund
| its lawsuits agains IBM and various other Linux players and customers.
| Microsoft suggested that hedge fund BayStar Capital invest $50 million in
| SCO.
|
| Microsoft also backed SCO’s play to convince other vendors and customers to
| license SCO’s technology to avoid potential infringement lawsuits. (Maybe
| that’s where Microsoft got its patent-licensing ideas ...)
|
| One of the first companies to snap up two SCO licenses was Microsoft, to the
| tune of $12 million, according to BusinessWeek. Sun Microsystems and Computer
| Associates also bought into SCO’s plan.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=639
The Goldfarb Declaration - Updated: MS Statement
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| According to the Declaration, Richard Emerson was not the only
| Microsoft employee Goldfarb was dealing with in connection with the
| BayStar investment in SCO. He mentions by name two others, from two
| other departments.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061009152706664
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| "There you have it. At least a third of SCO's entire market
| capitalization, and their entire current cash reserves, is payoffs
| funnelled from Microsoft. Their 10Qs reveal that every other line of
| cash inflow is statistical noise by comparison. The brave new
| SCO source business model is now clear: sue your customers, shill
| for Microsoft, kite your stock, and pray you stay out of jail."
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween10.html
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