The impact of licensing choice
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| If you look at the history of open source databases, there is an argument
| that the BSD license not only makes it easier for smaller vendors to
| challenge incumbents, but also for the first-to-market to establish anything
| near a position that could be considered ‘top dog’. PostgreSQL is a prime
| example of an open source project that has never been successfully
| commercialized on a global basis, despite all its good qualities.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/02/29/the-impact-of-licensing-choice/
Are shareware programs really FREE?
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| Open source software is also usually written by individuals who write their
| software for the "public domain." It is called open source because the source
| code or the set of instructions on which the software is based and indeed
| runs, is freely available to the computing community. Members of that broader
| computing community are expected, and indeed encouraged, to take that source
| code and add their own enhancements and features to it.
|
| The result is software that is every bit as good as its comparative
| commercial cousin but at a much lower cost.
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| In fact, entire operating systems have been written this way. The Linux
| operating system was written by Linus Torvalds, while a student at the
| University of Helsinki, in Finland. He made it clear from the start of the
| project that the source code was to be freely distributed.
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http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=924449
Meeting of Minds in Open Source
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| Last year, I was left with mixed feelings on the “state of open source”. I
| think timing had a lot to do with this. At the time, we were wrapped around
| the proverbial axle on licensing issues. As a result, much of the
| conversation was consumed with speculation around GPLv3, its impact, etc.
| While licensing is obviously is an essential underlying piece of
| infrastructure required to support the ecosystem, these discussions can
| quickly slide into the arcane and are often far removed from our core goal of
| making life better for end users.
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http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/02/28/meeting-of-minds-in-open-source/
Related:
GPL killed the MPAA star
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/gpl-killed-the-mpaa-star
In praise of the GPLv3
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| When Stallman released the final draft of GPLv3 on June 1, he told me he had
| decided to include a cut-off date in paragraph 7 of section 11 of the draft
| to make it possible for Novell to continue to distribute software covered
| under GPLv3 as part of its deal with Microsoft. In other words, the man was
| being merciful to a company which has sought to pervert the GPL. He was being
| anything but a software Talib (for the uninformed that's the singular of the
| collective noun Taliban).
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13253&Itemid=1091
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