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[News] US DoD Explains Why "Commercial Software" and "Proprietary Software" Are Not the Same

  • Subject: [News] US DoD Explains Why "Commercial Software" and "Proprietary Software" Are Not the Same
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 12:17:56 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Video: The DoD makes it official: open source IS commercial software. 

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| Towards the end of 2009, the office of the 
| DoD CIO issued a memo clarifying their 
| position on open source software. There 
| were some misconceptions, 
| misunderstandings, and just plain FUD 
| surrounding their stance previously, and 
| they wanted to make it clear that they 
| considered open source just as viable for 
| development as any other type of software.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/4/video-dod-makes-it-official-open-source-commercial-software


Recent:

Proprietary Licenses Are Even Worse Than They Look

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| Apple's licenses are probably the easiest
| example of proprietary licensing terms that
| are well beyond reasonableness. Of course,
| Apple's licenses do the usual things like
| forbidding users from copying, modifying,
| sharing, and reverse engineering the software.
| But even worse, Apple also forbid users from
| running Apple software on any hardware that is
| not produced by Apple.
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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/04/07/proprietary-licenses.html
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