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[News] Open Source Fakers Open Up After Criticism

  • Subject: [News] Open Source Fakers Open Up After Criticism
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:49:13 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
When is Open Source not Open Source?

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| The incompatibility between that and the Zimbra license is pretty glaring, 
| no further comment needed.
| 
| The reason this matters is that open source, as a development methodology 
| and as a culture, depends utterly on the freedom to fork. You can’t have 
| open source practices without open source freedoms: the practices depend 
| on the freedoms.
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http://www.rants.org/2007/06/26/when-is-open-source-not-open-source/

Some companies seem to be getting their act together.

Centric CRM and SocialText respond to open source hard line

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| The Open Source Initiative's plan to crack down on unapproved use of 
| the term 'open source' appears to be having an impact, with two of the 
| vendors targeted announcing plans to use OSI-approved licenses.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=645F5212-CDC3-4E28-A577-C7C75280B2D9

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