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The false contradiction within open source
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| Various license offshoots of the BSD family tree, whether Eclipse (beloved of
| IBM) or Apache (hearted by Google) or Microsoft’s various licenses, are
| one-sided because those companies put so much work into the projects they
| sponsor. The relative contributions of the communities and the sponsors are
| unequal, and will likely remain so.
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| If you want the codebase you built to grow, go with the GPL.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3903
Recent:
Technological nirvana
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| Software activist Richard Stallman on his philosophical roots, the Free
| Software journey, and his impressions of India’s free software movement.
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| “Around 2000, the news media in the U.S. decided to hide the Free Software
| movement behind the tame, docile philosophy called Open Source. Open Source
| doesn’t condemn anything, and shies away from the ethical issue of software
| subjugation,” he says. “Open Source supporters have values the same as that
| of Microsoft — convenience, reliability... They only differ on the means.”
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| Stallman insists that while his is an ideology that places freedom above all,
| OS is all about practicality. “To disregard freedom for short-term
| convenience is the act of a fool,” he says.
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http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/03/15/stories/2009031550070200.htm
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