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Perens Talks About Open Source Risk Management

Posted by Hemos on from the more-fun-then-roulette dept.

Big Sav writes "Here is a quick but good interview with Bruce Perens. It also raises the topic of indemnification vis a vis the SCO court case " Interesting interview - talks about Peren's new Open Source Risk Management company.

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  1. Re:Self-promotion by Kegster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, Its a bit of a standard plug tour. Though he didn't say anything particularly contraversial in this article, unlike in the one he did for computerworld, with its "if linux gets too commercial the developpers will throw their toys out of the pram and do a Cartman"

  2. RTFM? by JCMay · · Score: 3, Informative
    Quoting Perens from the article:


    I want to be very careful about that, because OSRM is not capitalizing on FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt), OSRM is going around and talking about what the real risks and benefits are.
  3. Re:How ridiculous is their case, anyways? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Once again, SCO are not suing over patents - they don't have any relevant ones. They are suing over contract breaches and putative copyright infringements (which look highly unlikely to succeed, I hasten to add). IBM's countersuit alleges SCO infringed IBM's patents.

  4. Re:Self-promotion by Kegster · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ok, I paraphrased slightly, so sue me ;)

    What he says does basically amount to a Damocles Sword hanging over businesses selling Linux based solutions, make money, but not too much, else we'll walk away and find a new toy to play with. And Bruce, with ESR, are the business friendly Open Source activists.

    At least with RMS you know where you stand.