Top Ten Open Source Innovators

42istheanswer writes "Open source is so much more than Linux these days. A lot is happening beyond the popular operating system. Open source models are thriving in CRM (SugarCRM), messaging (Scalix), and systems management (Zenoss). Datamation has identified ten leading commercial open-source innovators and the projects they are working on in their article, Ten Leading Open Source Innovators."

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Re:Innovations?

[Anonymous Coward]

Slick GUI? Yeah, the "gui" on an iPod really rocks...
 
Shut the fuck up you fucking moron.

Re:Open Source != Free Software

[DrJimbo]

Per Abrahamsen said:

You don't argue for why you believe Linus shares your misconceptions, I haven't seen anything from him that indicates that.

If by my "misconceptions" you mean my statement that FS != OSS, then you must be the only member of the FSF who slept though the entire debate over whether the Linux kernel devs should consider using the GPL-v3.

For example here is an article from Business Week that states:

On one side is Richard Stallman and his Free Software Foundation. When Stallman says "free" he doesn't mean price, he means freedom. He believes all software should be freely available to be modified by the public. And for him, this is nothing short of a moral fight.

On the other is Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux. He and others in his open-source camp believe that freely sharing code simply produces the best software, but if other people want to hide their code, that's fine, too.

Torvalds has repeatedly stated that he is okay with the Tivo using his code. He says the code is available for the user/owners to see and they can contribute changes upstream and this is all that matters to him. He calls this "Open Source" which is different from "Free Software". Free Software forces people who redistribute code to also redistribute the four freedoms.

Here is a page from the FSF which you claim to belong to. In it, Richard Stallman says:

: Linus Torvalds objects, with an irrational kind of stubbornness, to one of our goals. Namely, preventing tivoisation. He wants people to be able to tivoise the products that you use, and thus take away your freedom.

This should not be surprising. Linus Torvalds never supported the Free Software movement. He sort of accidentally drifted into making a contribution to the Free Software community, but not because he ever supported our goals. And so he has actually said that he is against our aims of defending freedom for all users. What can you do?

Well, he doesn't have to use it if he doesn't want to.

Torvalds explains this by claiming he is for Open Source Software, not Free Software. That's fine. He has the right to support whatever kind of license suits his fancy. But my mind boggles to think that a member of the FSF since 2003 is totally oblivious to this well known difference of opinion.