Businessweek Recommends License Switch for Linux

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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[Anonymous Coward]

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DUPE

[ThisNukes4u]

DUPEDUPEDUPEDUPEDUPE, it was last week too, damn are you guys that lazy?

is the desktop immune?

[krayfx]

...osrm study cites the risk being mostly in areas such as sendmail, samba, and linux. is the dektop safe as yet? is there any potential timebomb ticking in linux, that might make linux redundant when MS opens its arsenel ? i am mighty curious to know.

Despite this, BSD is still here.

[jhines]

BSD refuses to die. Free, Net, and Open have their supporters and developers.

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Re:In other news....

[atriusofbricia]

In reply to your comment, quite right.

What part of "well regulated" is so hard to understand?

I don't normally reply to sigs but I've seen this one a number of places and just had to reply to day... What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." is so hard to understand?

What part of the amendment makes you think that is is unique among the Bill of Rights in that it refers to a right of the "people", collectively, unlike all the others that refer to individual rights? I really curious so please respond.

Sorry for the off topic post.