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Leading Voices - Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red
Hat
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| This is Michael Tiemann, I am President of the Open Source Initiative and
| Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat.
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| The IT industry is headed for its own crisis, with plenty of red flags
| visible if you bother to look, as well as a clear and simple plan to avert
| the hard landing. But, in an industry famously long on ego and short on
| humility, can we really hope for a change before these CEOs destroy their
| companies and the assets of their customers?
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| [...]
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| The greatest objection raised by software industry participants about Open
| Source software is that if users are free to read, modify, and share
| software, then it's not possible to extract monopoly rents. Based on what we
| have seen from the monopoly these past 10 years, I'm not really sure that is
| such a problem.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/related_reports/business_solutions/article6318567.ece
Related:
Michael Tiemann - Subject: Torvald's is not the guy to follow here...
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| In my opinion, anything that Microsoft does that falls short of the published
| open source minimums is...sub-minimal. Torvalds is happy because his
| standards are lower--he cares more about himself than his community. But
| other people have higher standards--we also care about the community at least
| as much as we care for ourselves.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-02-25-019-26-IN-KN-MS-0000
Michael Tiemann: Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow!
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| Michael Tiemann is the brain behind Cygnus, the first company to offer
| support to Linux and other assorted free software programmes. He is now
| involved in open source ‘affairs’ at the OSI. We discuss the past, present
| and the future with Tiemann in this exclusive interview.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/23300/news.htm
Microsoft not so 'open' after all?
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| Head of open-source group says more than half of licenses don't pass muster
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| [...]
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| Michael Tiemann, president of the non-profit Open Source Initiative, said
| that provisions in three out of five of Microsoft's shared-source licenses
| that restrict source code to running only on the Windows operating system
| would contravene a fundamental tenet of open-source licenses as laid out by
| the OSI. By those rules, code must be free for anyone to view, use, modify as
| they see fit.
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| [...]
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| By his count, the OSI has rejected "two dozen" or so license applications for
| language that restricted the use or redistribution of software and its source
| code, even when the restrictions were written with what Tiemann
| called "moral" intent. For instance, the OSI has rejected license
| applications from Quakers and other pacifists who sought to prevent the use
| of software for weapons such as landmines.
|
| "I am highly sympathetic to that point of view," he said. "But the OSI is not
| in the business of legislating moral use. We allow all use, commercial or
| non-commercial, mortal or medical."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028318&intsrc=news_ts_head
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