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[News] SaaS Indutry Defects to Fake "Open Source" (Proprietary + API)

  • Subject: [News] SaaS Indutry Defects to Fake "Open Source" (Proprietary + API)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:11:43 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
More of the 'O'Reilly Wave':

Open APIs versus open source

,----[ Quote ]
| APIs, alone, only get you so far with third-party developers, as Juergen 
| notes: "Some contributers just want to get into the guts of the system, 
| contributing on much deeper levels than just the APIs. In that case, well 
| designed and   
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9764834-16.html

Is SaaS legitimate open source?

,----[ Quote ]
| So today’s question is this. Is the Web evolving too fast for the licenses? 
| Can licenses catch up to deal with the demands of an online world? Or will 
| Web 2.0, based on open source software, remain in effect “proprietary.”  
`----

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1349

Is Google Becoming An Enemy To Open Source?

,----[ Quote ]
| In the end, Google will pick its shots when it comes to open source. In other 
| words, Google will toggle between open source friend and foe based on its own 
| interests.  
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http://software.seekingalpha.com/article/45236

More of the same type of thing:

http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/5818


Related:

My Tongue-Lashing from Eben Moglen

,----[ Quote ]
| He made a strong statement about why the Free Software Foundation ultimately 
| chose not to close the "SaaS loophole" in GPLv3... 
`----

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/my_tonguelashin.html


Pendulum has swung in the open source debate

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.  
| 
| 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.   
`----

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9752966-7.html


Open Source is no Web 2.0

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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.    
`----

http://www.krishworld.com/blog/open-source/open-source-is-no-web-20


Cries for help go out as open source mogul's radar breaks

,----[ Quote ]
| That very speech served as O'Reilly's attempt to make up for his evisceration 
| as the hands of Free Software Foundation attorney Eben Moglen. One day 
| earlier, Moglen charged O'Reilly with wasting too much time on hem lines, 
| haircuts and the latest fluffy Web 2.0 start-up that looks like it might be 
| acquired for a ridiculous amount of cash. O'Reilly had no counter on the 
| actual day of Moglen's attack, but thought about the issues overnight.     
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/28/oscon_oreilly_radar/


Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation"

,----[ Quote ]
| At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center 
| director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim 
| O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building 
| the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to 
| join the conversation about software freedom.    
`----

http://www.linux.com/feature/118201


Web 2.0: Revolution or Hype?

,----[ Quote ]
| "There is certainly an element of hype in any technology revolution," said 
| Tim O'Reilly, founder and chief executive of O'Reilly Media. 
`----

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/58460.html

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