[wplug] Whither Open Source?

[Greg Simkins]

As the author said, it is not clear where it is going, but he did lay out a 
couple dots about IBM retaliating by purchasing Novelle.  I suppose that 
would take a lot of wind out of the Open Source sails.  We would be left 
with the die hards like RMS.

I am sure there are good lawyers, but if this whole chain of events is 
caused by some legal concern about old patents, I think grave misjustice 
will be done.  So, on the whole, we have too many lawyers.

I guess I am just not an optimist.

Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Knapp" <myddrin at myddrin.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Whither Open Source?


> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 08:59 -0400, Greg Simkins wrote:
>> Maybe RMS isn't such a lunatic after all.  Microsoft to buy Redhat?:
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1369&tag=nl.e539
>>
>> Once again, lawyers may be standing in the way of freedom.  Maybe RMS'
>> approach is only way to keep these guys off your back.
>
> I'm not sure how MS buying a single open source company is the end of
> Open Source... even if Red Hat is gone, all the work they poured into
> linux is still there for use by any of the plethora of open source
> companies (Novell, Mandrake, Progeny, just to name a very few).
>
> Could you please connect the dots for me?  What am I missing?
>
>>
>> Greg
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