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

[Perry]

Le Monday 18 October 2010 02.24:43 Tom H, vous avez écrit (you wrote) :
> 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.
Although this discussion does not fit under "technical support" it is probably 
of deepest interest to our community. I wish the list keeps tolerating such 
(highly targeted) announcements (my 2 cents).
> >
> > Maybe so, but you will have to admit its damned enlightening.
> 
> That's why I said "thanks."
> 


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