Comment Presumptious little bugger... (Score 1) 238
"Some open-source licenses may go a little too far," he said. "It's one thing to facilitate open access, but another to demand it. That's what you are trying to get away from."
In the end, revolutionaries could do more to marginalize the operating system through zealous adherence to a misguided interpretation of the
open-source movement.
It doesn't really seem to matter what Caldera is trying to move away from. They don't really represent the "open source movement", but rather their own corporate interests.
If they have a desire to create closed source proprietary software, then they should be basing it on BSD or public domain software, and not GPL'd software. No one forced them to use these more restrictive licenses.
And the article's bit on a misguided interpretation of the open source movement is rather comical. Given that neither the CEO of Caldera, nor the author of the article are really in a position to claim what open source movement is about. A large faction of the movement isn't writing software so a corporation can come by and take it and profit off it, without any concerns as to the reasons they released the software in the first place.
If they don't agree with the philosophy of the GPL, then there is other software under less restrictive licenses. However, For them to say the followers of the GPL are misunderstanding the open source movement, is crazy.
It would appear, given their plug for StarOffice, that Caldera, having benefited from the fruits of the labor of countless people, are now ready to abandon open source software and paint it as a movement of raving lunatics attempting to stifle the creativity of companies.
In the end, revolutionaries could do more to marginalize the operating system through zealous adherence to a misguided interpretation of the
open-source movement.
It doesn't really seem to matter what Caldera is trying to move away from. They don't really represent the "open source movement", but rather their own corporate interests.
If they have a desire to create closed source proprietary software, then they should be basing it on BSD or public domain software, and not GPL'd software. No one forced them to use these more restrictive licenses.
And the article's bit on a misguided interpretation of the open source movement is rather comical. Given that neither the CEO of Caldera, nor the author of the article are really in a position to claim what open source movement is about. A large faction of the movement isn't writing software so a corporation can come by and take it and profit off it, without any concerns as to the reasons they released the software in the first place.
If they don't agree with the philosophy of the GPL, then there is other software under less restrictive licenses. However, For them to say the followers of the GPL are misunderstanding the open source movement, is crazy.
It would appear, given their plug for StarOffice, that Caldera, having benefited from the fruits of the labor of countless people, are now ready to abandon open source software and paint it as a movement of raving lunatics attempting to stifle the creativity of companies.
