SCO, Open-Source Leaders Trade Barbs
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SCO CEO Darl McBride took a swing at the open-source community this week, Linux & Open-Source Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports, and Linux luminaries Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens weren't slow to respond.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1261526,00.asp
Ummm, funny... I thougt that the open source community was supposed to sooo much superier to everyone else...
Looks like they are just like everyone else except they haven't limited their fight just aginst MS but also with in their own community...
I guess it really is all about the money...
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But now there is squabling going on over who owns or has the rights to the code, at least thats how I read it... Maybe my coment was a bit of a reach but I still think it funny and a irontic thing that the "open source" community is fighting about who has the rights to the "open source" code...
I dunn no maybe I mis-read the article... :rolleyes2
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imagine had win95 been open source, then a few million people would have been able to look at the source code and make it a much more stable, secure OS. do you understand the power of open source now? it's not about gettings things for free, it's about sharing your work with others to educate and enlighten.
But... I really fail to see the big grand thing about open source...
Sure I think that its great and all that some feel that this world should be a place of shareing intelectual ideas and stuff... I don't necessarly disagree on the theroy of it and all, but, I think that its pie in the sky stuff and that the real world is not a place where a free exchange of ideas works well.
Eventually some one poors their heart and sole into an indea and wants to be reimbursed for it yet at the same time protect their investment by patents and copy rights so that no one else can steal their hard work... (something that I don't disagree with by the way...) I think that its kinda like the music industry sueing the people that are freely sharing their hard work and not getting paid for it....
To me the open source community is made up of a lot of folks that feel like stuff in life should be free and freely shared... Dosen't necessarly mean that they are lazy but that they have a weird sence that their hard work is paid back in some other way other than money or other corperate compensation... the problem with that generaly is the socioety that we all or most live in collides with those principles, its not real world ideas... The very nature in mankind is that mankind will undoubtly want proper compensation for hard work, its not the norm for mankind to submit to idealogical thinking of share and share alike....
Sorry, I don't mean to be confrontational its just the way I see it...
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