[Linux-discussion] The dangers of Open Core and Canonical's admission

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Another nice article on open-core:
> http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Guest-commentary-Open-Core-is-over-1097073.html
>
> For all those that go ga-ga over Ubuntu, which includes government
> departments promoting a single GNU/Linux Distro policy based on
> Ubuntu, here is perhaps a lesson and cautionary tale!
>
> Unfortunately it is not a "tale", its entirely true
>
> http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/17/shuttleworth-admits-it.html
>
> Forget Free Software (or Software freedom), its questionable if you'll
> remain even Open Source in the long run. Here is what RMS has to say
> about the "Open Core" argument
>
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/assigning-copyright

Thanks (because I've been meaning to google copyright assignment
because of systemd) but this post belongs on a discussion list not a
technical support list.