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Linux Corporate Influence: Boon or Bane?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the closer-looks dept.

Mark Tobenkin writes "Are corporations exploiting the Open Source community? The Linux Public Broadcasting Network has video interviews with Ian Murdock (of Progeny and Debian fame), Martin Roesch (author of Snort), Jeremey White (CEO of CodeWeavers), Bradley Kuhn (FSF), Mike Balma (Linux Business Strategist for HP) and others on the evolving OSS business models. The interviews center around whether integration with proprietary products endangers the Open Source effort or increases consumers' freedom to choose."

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  1. The problem with Linux is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All the people who think it's going places still read comic books.

  2. Linux Interview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Did they all have a circle jerk afterwards?

  3. Re:Here's another analogy by PoiBoy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    There's just one flaw in your analogy. You wrote, "Guys, there's a ride in your park that's based on one of our designs. We didn't say it could be a part of your little hostel."

    Your analogy seems to imply that the "infringing code" is in fact based on SCO's own design. B. Perens and others have argued within the past few days that is clearly not the case.

    A better analogy would be "The ride in your park is like the ride in our park, and even though we have no claim on the design of that ride, we insist you get rid of that ride because it is hurting our business.

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  4. I'm a Republican! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh, I'm a Republican
    I got a small schling
    I like to bomb niggahs
    and make a lot o' bling

    I got a bunch o' friends
    in high up places
    They helps me get dem
    government graces.

    Don't need no history
    Don't need no schoolin'
    I got my ideology
    To keep me a shootin'

    I fancy myself
    A brilliant tactician
    But neither me nor m'buddies
    Could even pass basic trainin'

    See, I'm above all that
    A fightin' and shootin'
    I just say "Sic em!"
    Then run the other direction

    Liberals! Faggots!
    Commies and queers!
    Socialist hippies
    Full o' pussy tears!

    You think I'm smart
    I just know who's who
    I couldn't run a fruit stand
    without the red white & blue

    I'll drop some crap
    about Jesus the Christ
    You'll buy it all
    and vote for me twice

    'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
    Real soon, now!
    So we gotta prop up Israel
    That ol' sacred cow

    Propaganda's m'friend
    But I calls it "fact"
    Even though I don't read
    'Cept for Chick tracts

    Facts? No! Don't need em here!
    We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
    Don't like what we say?
    Well FUCK YOU, bud!
    We'll shove it down yer throat
    and tell ya it's good!

  5. Definitely bane... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...if it contributes to mindless, navel-staring /. articles like this one.