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Re: iPod pulls the plug on Linux

Tim Smith wrote:
In article <2509053.kIdPPqOTkA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which reminds me... Matt Asay, whom some people consider an open
source 'zealot', is also very hypocritical. Like many others, while he
advocated Free software, he raves about Macs and buys everything at the Apple
shrine (or "toy shop", depending on your perspective). As far as lock-ins go,
Apple is worse than Microsoft. Why do people give them money? Just because
it's not Microsoft?


How's that different from your hypocrisy? You claim to champion open standards, but support ODF, which is not fully open. It's not open because Sun retains veto power over any new versions of it through their patent license. (Their patent grant only covers version 1.0, and any subsequent versions that they participate in the development of. If they decide they don't like the direction the community wants to go with any subsequent version of ODF, they simply can not participate in its development, and then their patents prevent it from being used).

You've bitched repeatedly about Microsoft's .NET patents, which are much more liberally licensed for free software than Sun's ODF patents.


You do sound very pouty, and as far as ODF goes, the current version has a legal opinion attached:

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2006/OpenDocument.html

and while .NET patents could possibly be "more free", this doesn't mean that implementing the framework in which .NET runs won't be encumbered. And that is the big gotcha that people are keeping away from.

Cheers,
ws

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