Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, tech blogosphere was buzzing about the Belgian Open Source developer Bruno Lowagie of Ghent‘s plans to restrict certain users from using the software he developed. The gist of the story is as follows. The developer of iText, an open source Java library which helps manipulate PDF, RDF, HTML, etc. on the [...]
Asking someone to respect the letter and spirit of law is not discrimination
August 9, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Matt Asay in his dramatically titled post Open Source Discrmination says that the open source community’s “non-readiness” to accept Microsoft into OSI fold is discrimination. Let me make one thing clear in the beginning. Out of the five licenses Microsoft submitted to OSI, three of them restrcited the code to be run [...]
Proprietary software is from dark ages
May 12, 2007 By 26 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Recently Dana Blankenhorn wrote on ZDNet blog titled Open Source is bad for vendors. In the post, he said the following Many of these vendor fears are wrapped up in the phrase “intellectual property.” What you do for me becomes my property. But why should it? Why should you, as an employer, continue [...]
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