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"

Comments

Clippy is HETRO! I Don't Fuck Sheep!

[Clippy]

Clippy LOVES Motif! Clippy will never be GNU! I don't fuck sheep like the rest of you!

Re:Viral

[Anonymous Coward]

It's because people have pride in their work and want to share it with others that open source exists.

That sounds eerily familiar like how junkies and drug addicts think. They want to "share" their love with someone else. Anybody who isn't like them just doesn't "get" it.

Open source zealots = junkies.

Re:Well..

[Dashmon]

Of course, GNU has nothing to do with Open Source.

Re:Motif?

[Eric Ass Raymond]

I am so sick of the so called open/free source community defining what is free by their own puritanic standards. If you have the source code, the product is free. It's just as simple as that.

From the point of view of a business, if you let people have your source code, you've given away your product. It's free. Period. And just how many "open source" businesses are currently making profit? Without dubious accounting practises like that of RedHat.

The belief that the parasitic open source community would somehow help to improve your product is naive to the exteme. And what's the point in improving the product when you no longer have a product in the first place - at least a one that would help your bottom line.

OMFG! IT'S NOT BRUCE PERENS! IT'S REALLY

[Anonymous Coward]

MISTER GOATSE, TRYING TO SUCK YOU INTO HIS GAPING OPEN SORE ANUS.

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Re:Well..

[cpeterso]

In today's news, RMS has announced the formation of the GnopenGnroup to combat the evils of Open Software.

Re:Your Journal

[Eric Ass Raymond]

Well, let's just say that I (would) bash open source hypocricy for free but...