Too bad, all that developer talent could have gone into making Linux better suited for the desktop.
Face it, Linux has a head start and is enjoying far more corporate support (due partly to the fact that Linux is licensed GPLv2, which compells big companies to share back their improvements).
We're all on the same team -- only if we FOCUS our efforts into the OS with the best chance (Linux) can we defeat the DRM-infested, money-grabbing proprietary OSs like M$ Vista and Apple OS X.
I hope the Open Graphics project will make inroads into the graphics business, and force Nvidia and ATI to make the specs to their cards public. They can have a big market if all computers intended to run FOSS are equipted with one of their cards. And if the majority of computers in Brazil are destined to run FOSS for financial reasons, that's a huge market for their hardware.
Nvidia and ATI are really paranoid about their IP - at one point Nvidia even refused to share the specs for an ethernet card they made. The FOSS comunity doesn't want their schemas for the hardware, just the interface so that quality open source dirvers can be made and Linux/*BSD can have state of the art graphics capailities.
The point is that if you use a BSD license, you are might as well call yourself an unpaid M$ employee: Chairman Gates can take your hard work and make millions selling it (of course, with the help of their legal hounds and rabid anti-open source public relations team).
If you want your code to accessible to the public FOREVER, license it under the GNU General Public License.
Secondly, you, the developer, CAN MAKE MONEY off using the GPL, by dual licensing your work (follow QT's example, the foundation of the KDE project).
If a big company does steal your work (e.g. inclused it in a proprietary, closed source product), sue their asses off and you may just become richer that you ever thought! You can't do that with the BSD license, now can you?
Looks like the authors forgot to mention a very promising project to create an open source 3D card with all the specifications available to FOSS developers, not just emplyees of the manufacturing company. In other words, they're trying to build 'free hardware' graphics card that would work to its full potential under Linux/*BSD, not just Windows.
The fact that Sun does not want to allow a kick-ass hybrid Solaris/Linux to exist shows that they don't want to help the community build a free and powerful operating system that could easily take over the desktop market share from M$. Solaris could really get a boost from the hardware compatibility and user-friendliness that Linux offers, while Linux could also take advantage from Solaris's rock-hard internals. In my opinion this is just another half-hearted measure that won't attract any more developers to Solaris and that won't help Sun's decline into bancruptcy.
Yes, too bad they didn't stand up for themselves, like IBM has done so far to SCO. Anybody in their right mind would have overturned this ruling, and then it would have set a good precedent for entities (private individuals) who are less able to fend for themselves if they are sued.
Xandros should get sued for infringing the GPL!!! They took down the website that gave the open-source part of their system (it used to be www.xandros.com/source_code.html, see http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:4uSo1oSHICEJ: www.xandros.com/source_code.html+xandros+source+co de&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)
Their ftp site, ftp://ftp2.xandros.com/src/, doesn't contain the sources licensed under the GPL. Flagrant violation that should be checked!
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Too bad, all that developer talent could have gone into making Linux better suited for the desktop.
Face it, Linux has a head start and is enjoying far more corporate support (due partly to the fact that Linux is licensed GPLv2, which compells big companies to share back their improvements).
We're all on the same team -- only if we FOCUS our efforts into the OS with the best chance (Linux) can we defeat the DRM-infested, money-grabbing proprietary OSs like M$ Vista and Apple OS X.
I hope the Open Graphics project will make inroads into the graphics business, and force Nvidia and ATI to make the specs to their cards public. They can have a big market if all computers intended to run FOSS are equipted with one of their cards. And if the majority of computers in Brazil are destined to run FOSS for financial reasons, that's a huge market for their hardware.
Nvidia and ATI are really paranoid about their IP - at one point Nvidia even refused to share the specs for an ethernet card they made. The FOSS comunity doesn't want their schemas for the hardware, just the interface so that quality open source dirvers can be made and Linux/*BSD can have state of the art graphics capailities.
The point is that if you use a BSD license, you are might as well call yourself an unpaid M$ employee: Chairman Gates can take your hard work and make millions selling it (of course, with the help of their legal hounds and rabid anti-open source public relations team).
If you want your code to accessible to the public FOREVER, license it under the GNU General Public License.
Secondly, you, the developer, CAN MAKE MONEY off using the GPL, by dual licensing your work (follow QT's example, the foundation of the KDE project).
If a big company does steal your work (e.g. inclused it in a proprietary, closed source product), sue their asses off and you may just become richer that you ever thought! You can't do that with the BSD license, now can you?
Looks like the authors forgot to mention a very promising project to create an open source 3D card with all the specifications available to FOSS developers, not just emplyees of the manufacturing company. In other words, they're trying to build 'free hardware' graphics card that would work to its full potential under Linux/*BSD, not just Windows.
http://opengraphics.org"
The fact that Sun does not want to allow a kick-ass hybrid Solaris/Linux to exist shows that they don't want to help the community build a free and powerful operating system that could easily take over the desktop market share from M$. Solaris could really get a boost from the hardware compatibility and user-friendliness that Linux offers, while Linux could also take advantage from Solaris's rock-hard internals. In my opinion this is just another half-hearted measure that won't attract any more developers to Solaris and that won't help Sun's decline into bancruptcy.
Yes, too bad they didn't stand up for themselves, like IBM has done so far to SCO. Anybody in their right mind would have overturned this ruling, and then it would have set a good precedent for entities (private individuals) who are less able to fend for themselves if they are sued.
Xandros should get sued for infringing the GPL!!! They took down the website that gave the open-source part of their system (it used to be www.xandros.com/source_code.html, see http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:4uSo1oSHICEJ: www.xandros.com/source_code.html+xandros+source+co de&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)
Their ftp site, ftp://ftp2.xandros.com/src/, doesn't contain the sources licensed under the GPL. Flagrant violation that should be checked!