[LINK] Has Open Source Lost Its Halo?

[steve jenkin]

Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote on 16/2/07 9:35 AM:
[Apologies to brd for not replying to list 1st time]
> Has Open Source Lost Its Halo?

> Citing an online opinion piece by Gordon Haff, an analyst at
> Illuminata Inc., <http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=252> the
> article notes that HP and IBM have not only profited from open-source
> at the expense of competitors, but have also boosted their images in
> the open-source community.

*Open* Source, not *Free*. They release the source code, so it's "Open
Source"... Q.E.D.

[Plus they actually *hire* people to do a bunch of work put in the public domain. e.g. "OzLabs"]

Look at the license for "Qt" toolkit from Trolltech, the basis of KDE,or for MySQL - Free for use and commercial versions... You get the samesource, but different Rights to it.



> The Computerworld article also mentions the efforts by the
> Microsoft/Windows camp to promote open-source credentials:

Classic MSFT:
    "FUD", then "Embrace, extend and extinguish"
    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish>


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