Like injecting a virus into a healthy body. Free Open Source is dead.
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 66.50.32.1]
on August 19, 2007 04:42 PM
This is insane. It won't be long before every single piece of code - whether GPL, BSD or other - will contain copyright strings and confusion regarding reuse; all thanks to Microsoft.
Open Source use to have a very specific meaning. There was safety and freedom associated with it - no strings... Projects and forks of projects created one of the richest periods of software contribution in any era of since the computing age began. Novell, Xandros, Linspire, OpenSUSE have help change this. There are also way too many people defending what Microsoft is doing and continuing to play their part as pawns. Anyone working freely for OpenSUSE is killing Open Source and Linux itself.
GNU/Linux as a free, unencumbered Operating System is dead, folks. I read above that the BSD/Apache license allows itself to be mixed with propretary code, sigh...
This statement says it all:
"Code licensed under the MS-PL cannot be redistributed under the terms of any other license, but it can be combined with works released under the terms of other licenses, as long as those other licenses permit it."
It's a typical Microsoft tactic. We can hurt you but you can't do a thing to hurt us. By the time they're done, their FUD will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Distributions are allowing this type of viral code to enter their upstreams - Game Over.
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Like injecting a virus into a healthy body. Free Open Source is dead.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 66.50.32.1] on August 19, 2007 04:42 PMOpen Source use to have a very specific meaning. There was safety and freedom associated with it - no strings... Projects and forks of projects created one of the richest periods of software contribution in any era of since the computing age began. Novell, Xandros, Linspire, OpenSUSE have help change this. There are also way too many people defending what Microsoft is doing and continuing to play their part as pawns. Anyone working freely for OpenSUSE is killing Open Source and Linux itself.
GNU/Linux as a free, unencumbered Operating System is dead, folks. I read above that the BSD/Apache license allows itself to be mixed with propretary code, sigh...
This statement says it all:
"Code licensed under the MS-PL cannot be redistributed under the terms of any other license, but it can be combined with works released under the terms of other licenses, as long as those other licenses permit it."
It's a typical Microsoft tactic. We can hurt you but you can't do a thing to hurt us. By the time they're done, their FUD will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Distributions are allowing this type of viral code to enter their upstreams - Game Over.
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