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

[Tom H]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:00 PM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, October 17, 2010 07:52:29 pm Tom H did opine:
>> 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-ov
>> > er-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.
>
> Maybe so, but you will have to admit its damned enlightening.

That's why I said "thanks."