Sun CEO Mum on GPLv3, Reveals Licensing Hopes
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| Then he added, "One of my great fantasies in life is that the number of
| people with opinions on open source licenses will come roughly into
| balance with the number of people who have read them."
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133619-c,opensource/article.html
Yesterday, Simon Phipps asked Bob Sotur if IBM would adopt GPLv3. GPLv3 will be
approved the the OSI, based on Michael's quick word. Bruce Perens will
certainly give it the go-ahead.
Pragmatic Open Source
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| Sure, there are those who’d like to use the phrase as a catalyst for sales,
| but increasingly, companies, if only small ones, are being more, well,
| pragmatic, about their use of the term in their marketing.
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http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/06/22/pragmatic-open-source/
Related:
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up?
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| Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally
| pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the
| OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing the term
| 'open source'?" The answer is: starting today.
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http://opensource.org/node/163
Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
After 10 years: What is Open Source?
http://www.libervis.com/article/after_10_years_what_is_open_source
Little red hens of open source CRM
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| The people who “steal” your software get almost no value from it. The
| value of business software comes out only when you work with it, when
| you tweak it, when you support it. All open source licenses, especially
| the GPL, protect a program creator’s rights to extract this added value.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1153
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