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OK. But What Does It Mean? (Jacobsen v. Katzer)
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| It means that while OSI's handling of a list of approved licenses worked very
| well for a community made up of FOSS programmers, who are decent folks all on
| the same page overall, now that enemies of FOSS are attacking, we need a new
| organization to vet licenses going forward a lot more carefully, one made up
| of experienced FOSS lawyers, none of them with a history of hostility to, or
| ignorance of, the GPL, with the community as advisors.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080814141638469
"Then they attack you..."
Recent:
Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?
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| But Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to
| live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction.
| Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code.
| Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak
| provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can
| take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of
| the project's software with engineered incompatibility and no available
| source, just as they forced incompatibility into the Web by installing IE
| with every Windows upgrade.
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| IE is derived from Mosaic, the original Web browser, open source with a
| license similar to Apache's. So, this isn't a new strategy. The plan, then,
| could be to have Microsoft servers vie for dominance with their own –
| Microsoft specialized – versions of Apache applications. Or it could be that
| Microsoft sees itself replacing Linux in the market as a hosting platform for
| open source....
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| So, this $100,000 contribution and the partial patent grant aren't about
| interoperability. It's for publicity, and to convince government regulators,
| not the most technical people in the world, that Microsoft has joined open
| source and is now a well-behaved company, no anti-trust issues at all. The
| bad part for open source is that Microsoft is increasingly in a position to
| speak to European legislators as an insider in the open source community
| while requesting increases in software patenting that would block open
| source.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Bruce+Perens+Microsoft+and+Apache+-+Whats+the+Angle?.htm
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