Sayamindu Dasgupta
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:42:08 -0800
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 22:53, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > but then even when it was declared shared source concept was roundly derided > for its [pardon me] imbecility and assumption that government's are stupid > enough to sign a binding clause. the very nature of the concept is based on > favor-distribution. thus media spiels conforming to MSFT's stand that they > are opening the hood are part of the spin doctor's campaign. and this is not > new also. in my professional capacity, i've had the occasional query as to > that opensource and shared source are one and the same thing. i believe that > as part of the LUG we have to provide a conclusive pointer to the conceptual > difference between the 2 processes. As the article so rightly points out : > > "If you contribute to a GPL licenced software package, you still > retain copyright in your patches. If you contribute to a Shared > Source package, you hand over your rights to that code. You may > freely use and distribute the Open Source package you contributed to, > and the entire industry, including yourself, can potentially benefit > from it. > This you have no rights to do with Shared Source. If you wish to > use the Shared-Source-enabled software from Microsoft that you helped > to improve, you have to pay for each copy (or at least seat) and have > no right-to-distribute at all. Microsoft grows at your expense." > and that by its very nature can be termed parasitic
Hmmm..... Parasitic vs Viral ?? ;-) How about a article on Shared Src. vs. the GPL at the ilug-cal.org site ? -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [ http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/ ] ========================================= Speak out on social and cultural issues at PeacefulAction.Org http://www.peacefulaction.org ***************************************** We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3