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[News] Free Software Advocacy Advice, "Open Source" Continues to Lose Meaning

  • Subject: [News] Free Software Advocacy Advice, "Open Source" Continues to Lose Meaning
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:49:46 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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How to turn into Free Software supporters people who couldn't care less

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| My suggestions may seem unconventional and may even sound like heresy for 
| some Free Software advocates, but I am convinced they can be very effective.  
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http://digifreedom.net/node/103

Open Source Sex

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| You know a term has permeated society when...
|
| The San Francisco Chronicle Online has, to my surprise, a column called Open 
| Source Sex.  
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/12/33737


Related:

Forrester: Open source apps lag behind Linux in the enterprise

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| Interest in the deployment of open source enterprise applications is lagging 
| far behind knowledge of and deployment of the Linux operating system, 
| according to a survey from analyst group Forrester Research.  
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=6703


Why “open source” misses the point of software freedom

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| The philosophy of the younger open source movement is an inadequate response 
| to the older free software movement; the ethics the open source movement 
| never discuss keep coming up (any discussion of digital management 
| restrictions (DRM), the recent update Microsoft pushed on Windows users  
| without the the user’s consent are recent examples).   
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http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2007/09/27/why-open-source-misses-the-point-of-software-freedom/


Public Advocacy for Open Source Software--Preferences and Requirements

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| To the extent that the public funding agency has a defined goal of 
| funding "open source software", the OSI has always encouraged precisely one 
| definition: software licensed under one of the more than 60 OSI-approved 
| licenses.   
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http://opensource.org/node/199


Why, Why, Why OSI?

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| See? It doesn't say OSI can't discriminate. It can if it wants to, as far as 
| the OSD is concerned. So Microsoft's representatives and defenders need to 
| stop twisting the definition's words.  
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070821170512281


OSI email group gets catty over Microsoft's Permissive License request

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| Things got really interesting when Chris DiBona, longtime OSI member, open 
| source advocate, and open source programs manager for Google, Inc. chimed in: 
| 
|     I would like to ask what might be perceived as a diversion and maybe even 
|     a mean spirited one. Does this submission to the OSI mean that Microsoft 
|     will:  
| 
|     a) Stop using the market confusing term Shared Source
|     b) Not place these licenses and the other, clearly non-free , non-osd
|     licenses in the same place thus muddying the market further.
|     c) Continue its path of spreading misinformation about the nature of
|     open source software, especially that licensed under the GPL?
|     d) Stop threatening with patents and oem pricing manipulation schemes
|     to deter the use of open source software?
| 
|     If not, why should the OSI approve of your efforts? That of a company who 
|     has called those who use the licenses that OSI purports to defend a 
|     communist or a cancer? Why should we see this seeking of approval as 
|     anything but yet another attack in the guise of friendliness?    
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118677


Reverse-Halloween: The Marketing Checkbox Strategy

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| Getting Microsoft software licenses OSI-approved and similarly getting 
| Microsoft's proprietary document formats approved at ISO are like painting an 
| old Chevrolet.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| This may be enough to satisfy the enterprise customer that he is achieving 
| something different. Clearly, the substance is no different: it's a lock-in 
| in sheep's clothing.  
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/the-marketing-c.html


Merging "Open Source" and "Free Software"

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| Of course, they are not. Other Shared Source licenses may very well be too 
| restrictive to be considered Open Source. But, Microsoft may conveniently 
| divert the attention from this little detail to the fact that some of 
| Shared Source licenses are Open Source.   
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http://www.libervis.com/article/merging_open_source_and_free_software


Microsoft not so 'open' after all?

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| Head of open-source group says more than half of licenses don't pass muster
| 
| [...]
| 
| Michael Tiemann, president of the non-profit Open Source Initiative, said 
| that provisions in three out of five of Microsoft's shared-source licenses  
| that restrict source code to running only on the Windows operating system 
| would contravene a fundamental tenet of open-source licenses as laid out by 
| the OSI. By those rules, code must be free for anyone to view, use, modify as 
| they see fit.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| By his count, the OSI has rejected "two dozen" or so license applications for 
| language that restricted the use or redistribution of software and its source 
| code, even when the restrictions were written with what Tiemann 
| called "moral" intent. For instance, the OSI has rejected license 
| applications from Quakers and other pacifists who sought to prevent the use 
| of software for weapons such as landmines.     
| 
| "I am highly sympathetic to that point of view," he said. "But the OSI is not 
| in the business of legislating moral use. We allow all use, commercial or 
| non-commercial, mortal or medical."   
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028318&intsrc=news_ts_head

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