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Open Source And The Obligation To Recycle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 3, 2002 @06:40AM 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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Re:Silly counter-argument by _DMan_ · 2002-01-03 06:49 · Score: 0, Troll

Corporate failures are not directly tied to bad software

True. Where would Microsoft be if they were?
Well... by LOTR+Troll · 2002-01-03 06:55 · Score: 0, Troll

this is a stupid idea.

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Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-03 07:04 · Score: -1, Troll

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.