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A capitalistâs guide to open source licensing
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| Mattâs statement suggests, and he confirmed in
| a follow-up, that it is harder to build a
| community with a restrictive license. The
| obvious argument against that statement is the
| number of community projects based around GPL
| code: the Linux kernel, the GNU project,
| Samba, Drupal, Gnome, and KDE for example.
|
| Clearly the GPL does not prevent vibrant
| community development projects. The important
| point about those projects is that they are
| the result of true development communities,
| however, rather than a vendor-initiated effort
| to create a community.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/01/14/a-capitalists-guide-to-open-source-licensing/
Questions to ask about open source projects
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| # Is it good code and is it well architected?
| # Who are the founders, contributors, and
| users?
| # What are the motivations and behavior of
| each?
| # What is the form and governance of the
| community?
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http://www.sutor.com/c/2010/01/questions-to-ask-about-open-source-projects/
Recent:
Is Richard Stallman Mellowing?
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| RMS being pragmatic, and accepting that not
| every company can be as idealistic as he is?
| I think I'll go and lie down for a while...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2726
On Selling Exceptions
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| Thus I return again to my point that the
| vocal anti-Free Software critics are either
| <strong>ignorant</strong> or
| <strong>malicious</strong>. The FSF is
| quite good at laying out its philosophy in
| great detail on its website. You don’t
| have to sign an NDA or anything.
|
| Â The sadly necessary disclaimer: I’m
| not suggesting there is <strong>no</strong>
| valid criticism out there, just that people
| who play the “zealot” card,
| ridicule RMS or the FSF for
| “hypocrisy”, or enage in other
| such fact and logic-free fallacies are to be
| dismissed with scorn.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/on-selling-exceptions/
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