Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 28, 2021 20:31 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary by kemitchell
Parent article: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

> As I'm told Moglen used to say: "Don't learn copyright law from free software people." It's important to remember that we don't see copyright like other users of the system. Our policy preferences are often the opposite of prevailing and established public policy.

May I suggest you take a look at groklaw.net? Sadly, it's a cobweb site now, but a lot of us cut our "lawyerly" teeth there, and the site owner was a paralegal who made us do our homework! (The Library of Congress picked it out explicitly for archiving.)

While I'm not aware of the Nazgul actually contributing to the site, I'm pretty certain they would have been monitoring it for the SCO vs IBM case ...

Cheers,
Wol

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 28, 2021 20:34 UTC (Thu) by kemitchell (subscriber, #124442) [Link]

I read groklaw back in the day. One of many influences that lured me off the straight and narrow path of programmer to the dark side...