Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ?First among equals? undermines community, says Linus
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| In an interview at the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvalds warned of commercial
>| control of open source. Using Java and OpenSolaris as an example he pointed
>| out that ?Sun ends up having rights that nobody else has ? even if they then
>| act perfectly and they really behave well, just the fact that they have
>| special rights makes people legitimately feel like they are second class
>| citizens.?
>|
>| Fellow ZDNet blogger Dana Blankenhorn refers to this situation
>| as ?proprietary open source?.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=522
>
> Linus Torvalds at Linux.conf.au 2008
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Linus-Torvalds-at-Linux-conf-au-2008/0,130061733,339285669,00.htm
>
Interesting... he's worried about control, but only *sometimes*.
Tivoisation is a cracking example of control being held by a commercial
organisation.
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