____/ Mark Kent on Monday 30 July 2007 14:36 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On the Mark: Shift to Web Has Just Begun
>>
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>>| But as IT shops continue to embrace Linux, this united front will surely
>>| crack, as the different vendors strive to position their distributions as
>>| the best in order to win lucrative service deals. After all, history shows
>>| that the Protestants eventually went to war with one another.
>> `----
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=299438&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_feat
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>
> I think that the companies backing such things are surely likely to be
> competitive between each other, but the GPL is the key document which
> can keep everyone honest.
...Until Carmoney a(sic) and the Sunshine Boys sell out, grab $20 million from
Ballmer, call other distributors "pirates" and then still wish to exploit
Shuttleworth's labour and investment. Mind you, he called it racketeering. GPL
to the rescue! The upgrade to the GNU GPLv3 will not permit Carmony to touch
Ubuntu anymore. Not even Debian... tiff is over. So is Linspire.
> In fact, it's probably as historically significant as Magna Carta or the
> yanks' Constitution.
>
>> In-fighting a threat to free software
>>
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>>| Nathan Momsen of Business Data Solutions (BDS) believes that infighting
>>| between various distributions has negatively affected the uptake of open
>>| source software in local, provincial and national government.
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>> http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1658
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