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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:Silly counter-argument by _DMan_ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Corporate failures are not directly tied to bad software

    True. Where would Microsoft be if they were?

  2. Well... by LOTR+Troll · · Score: 0, Troll

    this is a stupid idea.

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