Open Source vs. Shared Source
Jared Smith
jared at trios.org
Mon Feb 10 16:52:17 CST 2003
>http://linux.org.au/~leonb/articles/picking-up-your-marbles.html
Each one of the points made in this article is valid, and could
be written in a form which is not designed to anger any
MS-centric user. IOW, this is "preaching to the choir." I'd like
to see a version of this which is not so clearly flamebait.
For example:
"If you mingle your code with Shared Source code, first of all you get
sued for breaking your licence agreement (maybe the BSA or BSAA come
around and steal your computers, who knows?), second of all, you
forfeit the rights to that code: you can't use it any more, and
neither can anyone else except Microsoft. OK, so who has the real
viral code? Do you need some time to think about it...? (-:"
While this is true, it comes wrapped implicitly with FUD language
which is not useful as a part of Linuxian advocacy.
The list of questions at the end is pretty insightful.
-Jared
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