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An open-source letter (News.com)
News.com is carrying a
letter from Joe Firmage, a former Novell VP and once a "good friend" of
SCO CEO Darl McBride. They won't be such good friends anymore.
"SCO's real agenda in refusing to identify the offending code is
quite clear: Prevent the open-source community from removing and rewriting
implicated segments of source code. In effect, SCO is seeking to prevent
the Linux community from correcting the alleged plagiarism so as to broaden
and sustain its prospects for royalties. Thus, SCO is now an accomplice to
the crime it alleges by refusing to allow the alleged perpetrators to clean
up their act. Courts should succinctly reject such blatant and calculated
extortion."
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An open-source letter (News.com) Posted Oct 1, 2003 15:47 UTC (Wed) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link] The comparison of open source software with the century oldopen scientific research is excellent, contrasting with the totalitarian character of closed source software providers.
An open-source letter (News.com) Posted Oct 1, 2003 16:26 UTC (Wed) by deatrich (subscriber, #25) [Link] I'm sure that someone is going to point out that Joe Firmage is a bit of a 'strange character'. However I find much information about him refreshing. He as been involved in interesting and controversial projects - he certainly isn't a dull fellow:He's on the board of directors of the Arlington Institute His keynote address at the State of the World Forum in 2000.
From his web site :
In short, he is __way_ more interesting than Mr. McBride.
An open-source letter (News.com) Posted Oct 1, 2003 16:27 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] > Well McBride, the "whole free-lunch thing" is not exactly free because it involves the painstaking and passionate commitment of a lot of wise and ethical people who agree to share their work openly with others. And open source does have a particularly powerful precedent that a lot of people do "get."This is very close to my standard explanation of the business case for working on open-source software, as a commercial entity: Why should we use that GPLd program as a base, when we'll have to give away the changes we make to it? Well, because of all the labor *you didn't have to pay for* that got it to where it is *now*. Seems fairly clear, even to business people, no? But, who knows: maybe it's just me.
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