Re: Συμφωνία Novell-Microsoft [was: Koyponia Suse apo th microsoft?]

[Nick Demou]

Την 6/12/2006, Spiros Bolis <sbolis at freemail.gr> έγραψε:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Θοδωρής Λύτρας wrote:
>
> > Το thread συνεχίζεται, με μία αποκάλυψη:
> >
> kai tsoyp, sto xtesino slashdot mia-akoma-analysh:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061203015212989
>
> prose3te to shmeio poy leei: "SCO was the first to try to get cute with
> the GPL on a grand scale"
>
> kathws kai to:
>
> "However, there is a concerted effort, in my opinion, to destroy the
> GPLv2, death by a thousand cuts and compromises. I think they'd like to
> do to Linux what they did to Unix. The GPL stands in their proprietary
> way, so they are doing all they can dream up to overthrow it or get
> around it with cleverness. That is one reason we need GPLv3, obviously."
>
>
> gia to teleytaio symfwnei kai o Stallman:
>
και μάλλον έχει συμφωνεί πολλά χρόνια πριν και ο Bruce Perens - δείτε
τι είχε να πει επι του θέματος τον γενάρη του  1999:

   Efforts to hurt us from inside are the most dangerous. I think we'll
   also see more attempts to dilute the definition of Open Source to
   include partially-free products, as we saw with the /Qt/ library in
   KDE before Troll Tech saw the light and released an Open Source
   license. Microsoft and others could hurt us by releasing a lot of
   software that's just free enough to attract users without having the
   full freedoms of Open Source. It's conceivable that they could kill
   off development of some categories of Open Source software by
   releasing a "good enough," "almost-free-enough" solution. However,
   the strong reaction against the KDE project before the /Qt /library
   went fully Open Source bodes poorly for similar efforts by MS and
   its ilk.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html