Anyone else notice the bit right at the bottom of the page?
Initiative for Software Choice c/o CompTIA
Sorry if I misunderstand, but is the (apparently) Microsoft-funded ISC supported by (apparently vendor-neutral) CompTIA?
Apart from that I lost count of how many points in that letter were merely total guff. For example:
"The ISC would like to emphasise that propietary and other forms of licensing, including permissive free software licensing, have delivered substantial innovative technological innovations"
Riiight. Given that open-source equilavents of every propietary software package I've ever used have been generally 'better done' than their closed-source counterparts. There are a few exceptions to this but IMHO they're pretty rare. Also, XGL, Beagle, Apache, etc. 'Nuff said.
"The ISC was surprised that an academic study of this nature failed to address the lack of a universally agreed upon definition of 'open standards' or 'FOSS'."
... Dictionary? If you're in the software business and you don't know what open standards or free/open-source software are, you aren't fit to be doing a study or report like this.
"extremely short 10-day window"
While you've got that dictionary in front of you, Mr Lueders, look up the word 'oxymoron'. Most people here could comment on a 256-page report in one day.;)
"It must be also pointed out that as of 2005 more than half of all FLOSS developers earn income from their FLOSS activities"
Since when...? I consider myself more of a FLOSS dev than a closed source one, even though every penny of my income comes from closed-source code.
Srsly, this Lueders guy has less of a clue than most of the trolls on/..
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Anyone else notice the bit right at the bottom of the page?
... Dictionary? If you're in the software business and you don't know what open standards or free/open-source software are, you aren't fit to be doing a study or report like this.
;)
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Initiative for Software Choice c/o CompTIA
Sorry if I misunderstand, but is the (apparently) Microsoft-funded ISC supported by (apparently vendor-neutral) CompTIA?
Apart from that I lost count of how many points in that letter were merely total guff. For example:
"The ISC would like to emphasise that propietary and other forms of licensing, including permissive free software licensing, have delivered substantial innovative technological innovations"
Riiight. Given that open-source equilavents of every propietary software package I've ever used have been generally 'better done' than their closed-source counterparts. There are a few exceptions to this but IMHO they're pretty rare. Also, XGL, Beagle, Apache, etc. 'Nuff said.
"The ISC was surprised that an academic study of this nature failed to address the lack of a universally agreed upon definition of 'open standards' or 'FOSS'."
"extremely short 10-day window"
While you've got that dictionary in front of you, Mr Lueders, look up the word 'oxymoron'. Most people here could comment on a 256-page report in one day.
"It must be also pointed out that as of 2005 more than half of all FLOSS developers earn income from their FLOSS activities"
Since when...? I consider myself more of a FLOSS dev than a closed source one, even though every penny of my income comes from closed-source code.
Srsly, this Lueders guy has less of a clue than most of the trolls on