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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:Less incentive to develop by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 1, Redundant
    s/DistroInc/Microsoft/g

    and therein lies the problem.

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  2. Re:No protection by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    >Business people like to force a useless migration to something different every once in a while.

    Yeah, like 401k, health insurance, and offshore labor.

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