By Peter Galli (eWeek) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2108409,00.as p The Free Software Foundation just published this morning a new draft of the last version of the General Public License, GPL3. This version takes aim specifically at the Microsoft and Novell agreement and seeks to prevent future similar agreements. Peter Galli/eWEEK reported on the news questioning if this new version will forever doom the license. "The draft has evolved over time, but GPLv3 is still clearly designed to build unscalable walls between open-source and proprietary software.
Interesting response reported by Todd Bishop, Seattle PI:
In response to Red Hat CEO, Matthew Szulik's comments dismissing the impact of the Microsoft-Novell deal on Red Hat, Microsoft director of corporate communications, Jeff O'Mara, told Todd Bishop/Seattle-PI that many customers are leaving Red Hat and looking for a Microsoft-Novell solution for a variety of reasons.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archi ves/111803.asp
It seems to me that much of the commentary on Slashdot is around a well-chosen summary of an article instead of the actual news. The paragraph used made it sound like RMS was there to convince the Cuban government rather than speaking at a legitimate conference.
I would bet that your company's practical attitude is the norm in most large companies today, i.e. "Our policy is to use the software that works" and "Our direction must always be to solve business problems."
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If you want to hear T3's side of it, there's a good article written by Steve Friedman, T3's president -- The T3 Technologies Story: http://openmainframe.org/featured-articles/the-t3-technologies-story.html
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2108409,00.a
The Free Software Foundation just published this morning a new draft of the last version of the General Public License, GPL3. This version takes aim specifically at the Microsoft and Novell agreement and seeks to prevent future similar agreements. Peter Galli/eWEEK reported on the news questioning if this new version will forever doom the license. "The draft has evolved over time, but GPLv3 is still clearly designed to build unscalable walls between open-source and proprietary software.
Interesting response reported by Todd Bishop, Seattle PI: In response to Red Hat CEO, Matthew Szulik's comments dismissing the impact of the Microsoft-Novell deal on Red Hat, Microsoft director of corporate communications, Jeff O'Mara, told Todd Bishop/Seattle-PI that many customers are leaving Red Hat and looking for a Microsoft-Novell solution for a variety of reasons. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archi ves/111803.asp
It seems to me that much of the commentary on Slashdot is around a well-chosen summary of an article instead of the actual news. The paragraph used made it sound like RMS was there to convince the Cuban government rather than speaking at a legitimate conference.
I would bet that your company's practical attitude is the norm in most large companies today, i.e. "Our policy is to use the software that works" and "Our direction must always be to solve business problems."
There's another good article on this story on Linux Insider: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/LRYJCeEv9bWdeY/I s-Wal-Marts-Support-for-Suse-Linux-a-Tipping-Point .xhtml.
It could be that the customer is driving this.