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Open Source As Legal Time Bomb
Hwyman writes "TechWorld is reporting on the latest attack on open-source software by the Microsoft-backed Alexis de Toqueville Institution (ADTI). Many here will remember ADTI's previous assertion that Linux Torvald was NOT the true father of the Linux kernel. Taking the stance that OSS is in conflict with IP law, ADTI president Kenneth Brown states, 'After a brief glance at much open source software development, it becomes readily apparent that a number of open source practices directly conflict with best practices associated with protecting intellectual property.' With references like 'open sores software,' it's easy to believe that ADTI might be somewhat biased."
James Earl Jones: Tux... I AM your father.
Tux: Noooooooo!
Umm... I would agree that Linux Torvald didn't create Linux, but Linus Torvalds did.
So the proposed solution is to sue the pants off of anyone involved with open source and take their money. Open source developers have a great defense against this: they have no money.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
We get "Micro$oft", they get "Open Sores", it's all good.
I think they've been "Tocque"-ing up a bit too much.
Who wouldn't be scared of tux the penquin, according to this report I just read by Microsoft, his diet consists of the brains of tiny children, and Linus Torvalds is the reincarnation of Hitler an dStalin put together
Lunis Torvaldios
The only thing that's been proved here is that too much toke does indeed fry brain cells.
What's all this I hear about Open sores software? don't we have enough bad software out there? We have viruses and dirty worms, yuck. Some software has bugs in it. I'm sure that's not healthy. I think if we have open sores software, it will get infected and will die. I think we should put some ointment on open sores software and....
What? Open source software?
Never mind.
As Linus wrote last year:
Posting this on Slashdot is just feeding the ADTI troll.
So, first we should ignore them, then (as more people are exposed to this rubbish and believe it) I assume we'll have to fight them, then they win?
Wait - I forget, which side am I meant to be on now?
Just been reading the earlier post about the Sci Fi Hall of Fame additions and was surprised to find out that Ken Brown never made it.
he's writing some fantastic fantasy work these days - outta this world man!
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
Alexis is that you? Alexis de Toqueville from NH? If so, please call me. Remember that night after our last meeting when we went drinking afterward and ended up back in my suite? Well, I seem to have developed these open sores since then and I really think you need to be seen by a doctor...
Bill G from Redmond
Mr. Kerry has put himself firmly in the camp of presidents
Thank goodness the rest of us didn't.
From the looks of things, Applied Greed for the most part.
Is it fascism yet?
If I were to win the lottery then just to amuse my Slashdot friends I promise to commission a study by the Alexis de Toqueville Institute which finds that small hairy dwarves who live in the sewer actually invented Linux. I will have Ken Brown include in the bibliography the ingredients label on a can of Lima beans as well as a second ADTI report which finds that the Law of Gravity is on a collision course with intellectual "property" law, and I will pay him extra if he agrees to entitle the report "The Secret Incestual Goat Fetish of My Immediate Family". How much do you think he will do it for, about 5 or 10 grand?
Well, Clem, ah dunno what yew city folk use, but us rural country folk use this here "cvs" and "subversion", which do alla that.
Seriously, you do realize that any non-trivial project is already using revision control software of some kind, that submissions are logged, and that users are authenticated before they can commit to the repository, right?
Nothing worth doing is worth doing today.
It's a think tank, just someone forgot to put the plug in.