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Businessweek Recommends License Switch for Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thinking-about-the-big-picture dept.

MadFarmAnimalz writes "BusinessWeek has an article about the perceived threat of patents to linux, citing the SCO case, the opening of OSRM, and the Munich situation as evidence for the veracity of their conclusion that Linux isn't safe. Their solution? Relicense to the BSD license or the Mozilla license. On a positive note, the article's author does link to RMS' article Why Software Should Not Have Owners; good to see Stallman being quoted and linked to in a publication Like BusinessWeek."

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  1. Re:No protection by product+byproduct · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's businessweek. Business people like to force a useless migration to something different every once in a while.

  2. Re:hail by imroy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I belive in spell-checkers!

  3. Re:No protection by Ralph+Yarro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Business people also like open source programmers to release their work under a BSD license rather than GPL.

    As a business man I can confirm this and would like to add that we would also like it if you would mail us your life savings at the same time.

    Thanks

    Ralphie

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  4. The irony here, of course... by Estanislao+Mart�nez · · Score: 5, Funny
    Switching to a BSD license will just encourage code forking which is bad.

    Which is exactly why there are like 50something different forked BSD systems, each of them unpredictably different from the next. Oh, wait, no.

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