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Open Source And The Obligation To Recycle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-the-world-a-better-place dept.

Lisa writes "Tim O'Reilly has a piece called "Open Source and the Obligation to Recycle" in his weblog, where he urges every company whose products are "obsolete" to consider making them available under an open source license, or putting them in the public domain, thereby enriching the soil of our collective commons. (Interestingly, the first posting on the weblog disagrees, saying "...Giving away the software of failed companies could turn every corporate failure into a disaster for everyone else.)""

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  1. Re:Problems with this by tommck · · Score: 4, Funny
    "umm, lets see now, where did I shove that 5.25' disk. . . . . "

    Man, This guy's gotta be old! I thought 8" floppies were as big as they got... But FIVE AND A QUARTER FEET! Holy Cow! ;-)

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    ---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.