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The FSF, Linux's Hit Men

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they'd-had-to-be-called-that dept.

PrimeNumber writes "Forbes has this story about the Free Software Foundation and its quest for Cisco and Broadcom to release the source of GPL'ed linux source used in routers. Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this. However it did help me gain insight into software from a PHB and suit perspective."

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  1. Daniel Lyons by AsparagusChallenge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember "What SCO wants, SCO gets"? Same author. Don't expect any love from him.

  2. Daniel Lyons, the author by leming · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you look at other articles that Daniel Lyons has written for Forbes, you will see that this man is more or less anti-free software. He wrote an article back in June about SCO vs. Linux. In that article he describes linux users as: "like many religious folk, Linux-loving crunchies [are] convinced of their own rightousness..." This is just another article written by a another man who thinks that Linux will go nowhere because it isn't backed by a major corporation starting with an M.

    It's my personal opinion not to read too much into the article, and take it just as it is, an opinion -- someone else's view on what is happening.