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Linux is not an operating system, or is it?
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| If you are at all familiar with my brain
| sneezes (I could use another word here but
| this is a respectable blog :) then you know
| I am always rabbiting on about Linux. I am
| always Linux this and Linux that. This gets
| some people upset and they claim that it
| should be GNU/Linux or perhaps more
| accurately Linux/GNU. There is a word in
| the English language (which I hope I am
| using) called context. In other words, I
| use the word Linux in the context of a
| complete Linux based distribution and
| believe that my readers understand that
| context.
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-is-not-an-operating-system-or-is-it-37890
Related:
Don't wanna pay for Linux? Beware of software patents
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| Do you really want to wake up one morning and pay Microsoft or SUN royalties
| to have the right to use Linux on each of your boxes? Probably not. However,
| if companies continue playing the little game of open source vs. software
| patenting, that time might come much sooner than you think.
|
| Take Microsoft for instance, they have a great code repository called
| CodePlex, one of their show-rooms for open source development advocacy.
| Except that in the last months, developers have lost their ability to license
| their code under the GPLv3. As we've shown earlier, Microsoft donât like the
| GPLv3 because it provides protection against software patenting.
|
| The latest victim to date is MySQL who has always had a very strong stance
| against software patent. But like Icarus flying too closely from the sun,
| MySQL burned its wings: their anti-patent manifesto has abruptly disappeared
| from their site. (The complete story here).
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http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/2008/03/when-the-ip-law.html
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