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The Open Group's New Open Source Strategy
Bruce Perens writes "The Open Group hasn't always had the best reputation in the Open Source community, mostly because of their handling of Motif, which remained proprietary for much too long. But there's no arguing with the success of our community, and now the Open Group leadership understands that their organization must be fully involved in Open Source... or it's time for them to change their name. To that end, the Open Group contracted me to develop an Open Source strategy for their organization. The draft strategy has been published and they are requesting comment. - Bruce"
Open Source = Viral.
If you care about your IP you won't use it.
I blame them mostly for making motif look so ugly. :)
This is boring, pompous, pretentious, arrogant crap.
Just change your name to Evil Properitary Bastards and get on with it.
Talk about being a pretentious prick!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Maybe if I used very small words and stopped myself from thinking before I replied, my posts would be grammatically correct like yours.
C is my primary language, English is an afterthought.
it's gnu/gay
I think I can speak for most of the open source community when I say:
fuck you, open group
Here are mine:
Time before Perens tells the Open Group to "fuck off and die" as he did with Debian: 3 months
Time before the Open Group fires his ass as HP did: 6 weeks
I know the two bets may seem contradicting each other, but that's just like betting two numbers in roulette.
I never cease to be amazed that a fuckup with BP's baggage still manages to dupe people into considering him anything but a weasel.
C is my primary language, English is an afterthought.
Were you trying to be funny? Because I hate to tell you, but that's not funny. It's actually really fucking pathetic. Not just because the statement itself is pathetic, because it is, but also because you thought it would be funny, or cute, or whatever, and it's not. I mean WOW, that's some really fucking sad shit.
Next time you're sitting alone in the dark late at night wondering if you should kill yourself, do it.
Yes, they have certainly helped to fuck up the Linux/free OS desktops. Two more competing widget sets. Way to go, OS!
BOO! TERRO
Bruce, you are a communist and few on Slashdot give a rats ass about your socialist agenda. We all like to get "free stuff" whenever we can, but nobody around here (except for the Indians, China-based Chinese and Russia-based Russians) want to help you gut the American software business and further destroy the market for IT services in the USA and Europe (by making most of our tools and techniques freely downloadable to countries that contribute nothing but low-cost labor). VERY FEW people have the luxury of sitting back at George Washington Univesity or MIT and writing books about how everything should be free. Developers have to worry about their parents and kids in this country while you and RMS have done more to transfer wealth OUT of the USA than perhaps anyone else in history. You are going to go down as a communist --not as any kind of noble IT engineer or developer. The same goes for RMS who unlike you, at least developed a few incredible pieces of software.