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Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle (Law.com)Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle (Law.com)Posted Jun 3, 2008 22:23 UTC (Tue) by mgb (guest, #3226)Parent article: Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle (Law.com)
The article is about the consequences of illegal exploitation - redistributing open-source for profit in violation of license conditions. Unfortunately as written the article may appear to casual readers to be implying that merely using open-source is a bad thing.
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Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle (Law.com) Posted Jun 3, 2008 22:46 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Agreed. I didn't even read the whole article--based on the summary provided by Ris, this reeks of a smelly FUDsicle. While I'll openly admit that Open-Source isn't for everyone (speaking in corporate IT terms, that is), I do wish that anyone reading these articles puts things in a balanced perspective. There are plenty of warnings to be made about proprietary, closed-source software.
Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle (Law.com) Posted Jun 3, 2008 22:54 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Looks like typical journalism to me - emphasizing controversy and emotions and blurring the facts or even getting them wrong in some places.Perhaps the most important free software used for commercial purposes is Apache, which is not under GPL. It can be used to get a business advantage over those running non-free web servers. If nothing else, Apache doesn't have to be supported by its maker. With all that talk about GPLv3 and the open source advocates waiting to sue businesses, I don't think there has been a single case of suing somebody over a GPLv3 violation.
Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle (Law.com) Posted Jun 4, 2008 10:19 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] Obligatory: $ HEAD http://law.com/ | grep ^Server: Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.8e mod_jk/1.2.25
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