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Monday, May 10 2004 @ 05:59 PM EDT
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This is so stupid I think we need a parody done by Scott Lazar. But I'll do my best to tell you the news with a straight face. The Alexis de Toqueville Institution, who as you may recall admits it gets funding from Microsoft, has put out a prediction that Linux is on a collision course with patents. The press release is on , which is a press release distribution service, I gather. And the article is here. I think Microsoft needs to take a lesson from BayStar and ask for its money back. Here is a sample of the quality of this article: "To summarize, the General Public License (GPL), the contract/license for GNU/Linux software and other open source software requires distribution of the source code for the original program. If you receive a copy of GPL’ed software, you can use it without worrying about the original author exercising any limitations, fees, licenses, etc. The GPL enables developers to transfer the rights of their work to anyone they would like, for the privilege of having the reciprocal use of GPL’ed work. This feature makes selling GPL’ed software inane because anyone that agrees to the terms of the GPL can also have a copy of the same software with the code - for free."
So Red Hat and Novell and Mandrake and all the others are inane, eh? And what about IBM?
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