Open Source "State of the Union" address [LWN.net]

Open Source "State of the Union" address

Posted Aug 7, 2003 19:29 UTC (Thu) by dwalters (guest, #4207)
Parent article: Open Source "State of the Union" address

In its call for public comments leading up to this vote, the vast majority of replies opposed software patents. The survey takers rejected these comments because they were associated with the Open Source community. They justified that because Open Source was, in their words, "not economicaly significant".

This is a grave injustice to the democratic process. I feel so helpless to do anything about this. I've written to newspapers (and was published), written to MEPs. What more can I do as an individual?

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Open Source "State of the Union" address

Posted Aug 7, 2003 20:16 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

I belive that with all the problems "we" open-source face, as so well exposed, as usual, by Bruce, a compromise is vital to survival...

Open-Source now has enough "momentum" to negotiate between its burocratic institutions FSF, Open-source, OSAIA, the drawing of clear frontiers, that separate the developing world from the commercial world, and their patents and closed hardware information and publicity...

I've no love neither for IBM, HP, SUN or RED HAT, they need "volunteer Open-Source developers" as much those developers need them for finance and protection, but that not without clear rules that not beneficiates no big or small entreprise as does not beneficate well known and newbes developers.

This can only make politics and publicity, a world outside the traditional BSD, GNU and Linux ones.