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Stories · 4

  1. Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers?

    Tech · Programming · · posted by Zonk · from the get-thee-hence dept. · 430 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "Via Wired, a blog post in which BMC Software's Whurley and Google's Greg Stein agree that the GPL v3 is currently on a path that will alienate developers. Stein has an interesting theory called 'license pressure' which is similar to 'pricing pressure'. 'Due to pressure from developers, all software is moving towards permissive licensing" translation, the GPL and developers are moving in opposite directions ... Developers care about the licenses on the software they use and incorporate into their projects, they like permissive licenses, and they will increasingly demand permissive licenses.'"

  2. Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?

    Ask · Money · · posted by Zonk · from the argh-i've-got-a-quarter-in-my-eye dept. · 162 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "IBM, Sun, Novell, and Red Hat all have a very significant open source element to their businesses. In addition to these juggernauts, there is growing investment in various open source models. Will money flowing into open source destroy its roots? Mark Hinkle just posted an editorial asking the questions Is Commercialization Killing Open Source? in which he comments on 'opensville' and gives some actual investment data, and a lot of insight into the growing trend in 'open source commercialization'. Is there such a thing as 'too much money' when it comes to developing software?"

  3. Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source

    It · Microsoft · · posted by ScuttleMonkey · from the conference-trolls dept. · 154 comments
    tlockney writes "Next week at Microsoft's MIX, whurley will be leading a discussion on 'Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft'. To kick off a bit of pre-session discussion and enlist the help of others in putting Microsoft on the spot, whurley, king of all things open source at BMC has written an article entitled 'Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source'."

  4. Enterprise Network Management Systems?

    Ask · Technology · · posted by Cliff · from the prime-time-applications dept. · 4 comments
    Luke A. Kanies asks: "Does anyone have any experience with any enterprise-level NMSs? I need to implement one at a relatively large DSL provider in the next couple of months, and I can only find marketing materials so far. Has anyone used netcool, COMMAND/POST, or OpenMaster? Netcool looks like the best, but I would like some real-world stories before I try to roll one of these out. "