<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:39 AM, A. Mani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.mani.cms@gmail.com">a.mani.cms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Another nice article on open-core:<br>
<a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Guest-commentary-Open-Core-is-over-1097073.html" target="_blank">http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Guest-commentary-Open-Core-is-over-1097073.html</a><br>
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From: Indranil Das Gupta <<a href="mailto:indradg@gmail.com">indradg@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:24 PM<br>
Subject: [Linux-discussion] The dangers of Open Core and Canonical's admission<br>
To: <a href="mailto:linux-discussion@ilug-cal.info">linux-discussion@ilug-cal.info</a><br>
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Hi all,<br>
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For all those that go ga-ga over Ubuntu, which includes government<br>
departments promoting a single GNU/Linux Distro policy based on<br>
Ubuntu, here is perhaps a lesson and cautionary tale!<br>
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Unfortunately it is not a "tale", its entirely true<br>
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<a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/17/shuttleworth-admits-it.html" target="_blank">http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/17/shuttleworth-admits-it.html</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I read the whole thing 10 times and still got no reference to "Ubuntu" apart from UbuntuOne which in which community is not involved.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So next time Nokia does something wrong, then Qt will be tagged "For all those that go ga-ga over Qt". Even though Canonical funds Ubuntu and owns the trademark, Ubuntu is more than just a Canonical project. I am not sure how many people have contributed to it in their free time. The whole blog post is about how Canonical handles copyright assignments and Ubuntu community was not involved in drafting this policy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am still wondering how Ubuntu came into picture? Just because Canonical is a sponsor doesnt cut the argument. Even Microsoft is a sponsor of Apache Foundation. Was this a linkbait?</div><div><br></div>
<div>--</div><div>Manish</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></div>