Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software
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| As the advocates of open source draw new users into our community, we free
| software activists have to work even more to bring the issue of freedom to
| those new users' attention. We have to say, “It's free software and it gives
| you freedom!”—more and louder than ever. Every time you say “free software”
| rather than “open source,” you help our campaign.
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Open Source: Beyond Infrastructure
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| We all know that open source software is already widely used in IT
| infrastructure: security (firewall, proxy, antivirus, antispam, etc.),
| operating systems (servers, desktops, workstations, appliances, etc.),
| application and Web servers, databases, Web browsers, etc. However open
| source software is no longer restricted to the “lower” layers of the
| information system.
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http://blog.opensolutionsalliance.org/archives/62-Open-Source-Beyond-Infrastructure.html
Open source companies to watch
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| Open source is making its way into more and more enterprises with cheap,
| robust alternatives to solutions offered by proprietary software vendors.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/082307-open-source-to-watch.html
This new one is about standards, not even open source, but at least that's a
start:
http://openstandards.wikidot.com/main-en
The Mountain Argument That Could Be a Molehill
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| Truthfully, the real war against Redmond is the Open Document Format/OpenXML
| doucment format battle. We have seen Red Hat, IBM, Sun, and even Novell pour
| a lot of time and money into fighting the OpenXML standardization process.
| Why? Because that's the way Microsoft can keep these companies out of the
| corporate desktop market, where the real money can be made.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-08-24-029-26-OP-MS-LL
Related:
My Tongue-Lashing from Eben Moglen
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| He made a strong statement about why the Free Software Foundation ultimately
| chose not to close the "SaaS loophole" in GPLv3...
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/my_tonguelashin.html
Pendulum has swung in the open source debate
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| Once upon a time, the term "open source" was coined to save the free-software
| world from itself--or, rather, from the free-software zealots, as you can
| read on the Open Source Initiative's Web site.
|
| Today, I can't help but feel that the pendulum has swung in the opposite
| direction, where we're so self-satisfied with the money we're making off open
| source that we have neglected the essential freedoms that make open-source
| profit possible.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9752966-7.html
Open Source is no Web 2.0
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| It is time we stop the term open source from getting hijacked. I recently
| wrote about how tech media doesn’t get open source. The events in the last
| week or so have confirmed my thesis further.
|
| [...]
|
| It is time for saner elements in the open source world to wake up and stop
| the abuse of the term open source by the tech media and companies like
| Microsoft. If we don’t do it now, the only other alternative is the free
| software movement and the business community may not be able to leverage the
| freedom offered by the free software then.
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http://www.krishworld.com/blog/open-source/open-source-is-no-web-20
Cries for help go out as open source mogul's radar breaks
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| That very speech served as O'Reilly's attempt to make up for his evisceration
| as the hands of Free Software Foundation attorney Eben Moglen. One day
| earlier, Moglen charged O'Reilly with wasting too much time on hem lines,
| haircuts and the latest fluffy Web 2.0 start-up that looks like it might be
| acquired for a ridiculous amount of cash. O'Reilly had no counter on the
| actual day of Moglen's attack, but thought about the issues overnight.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/28/oscon_oreilly_radar/
Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation"
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| At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center
| director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim
| O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building
| the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to
| join the conversation about software freedom.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118201
Web 2.0: Revolution or Hype?
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| "There is certainly an element of hype in any technology revolution," said
| Tim O'Reilly, founder and chief executive of O'Reilly Media.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/58460.html
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