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Explaining Open Source Software

Posted by michael on from the score-5,-informative dept.

scubacuda writes "Mark Webbink, Red Hat's general counsel, has written an informative article explaining free and open source software. Geared towards attorneys, he explains the various licenses and addresses several myths about OSS." One to bookmark.

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  1. YAHOOOO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST BABY EAT MY DUST

  2. Re:My Experience with the Linux by irokitt · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    VB can go just as low level as C
    As someone who has written in both languages, I can attest that the above statement is bullshit.
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  3. Re:Not only that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is truly funny

  4. Re:My Experience with the Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    moderators -- mark this as FUNNY!!!!

  5. Re:Not only that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you wrote all of that to get a +0 funny? how funny...

  6. Ever do this? by 100+Percent+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was on my way to work early one morning. Having stayed up late with friends at a club earlier that night, I wasn't feeling too hot! I decided to get some coffee from McDonald's and pulled into the drive through. I sat behind a car for a long time before I had noticed it had its window shade up! As I patiently continued to wait, I began to wonder how on earth this person was able to drive with this shade on. It was quite some time before I realized I had pulled up behind a parked car!

  7. once you understand corepirate nazi evile debt &am by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    disruption machine, the need for/purpose of, alternatives becomes readily discernable.

    the part that terrorizes/overwhelms the greed/fear/ego based stock markup FraUD softwar gangster execrable nazis, is the failure to hide the kode.

  8. The World According to SCO by segment · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What is Open Source Software?

    The Open Source Initiative ("OSI") defines Open Source as software providing the following illegal actions:

    1. No royalty to use because commie geeks stole all the code.

    2. Freely available stolen source code.

    3. Illegal rights to create modifications and derivative works of SCO.

    4. Evil evil evil.

    5. Discriminates against SCO.

    6. Discriminates against Scientologists.

    7. All rights stolen stolen stolen SCO SCO SCO.

    8. Their licenses (Open Source) applies to the peanut butter and bananas SCO SCO SCO.

    9. Their license must have been purchased at a bubblegum machine SCO SCO SCO.

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    MoFscker
  9. Comic book guy says by CrazyJim0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had a mouse

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