Schlagel, Joel D. IWR wrote:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10640248/1/tech-rights-give-companies-upper-h and.html
Joel, A lot of this article seems to be a contract dispute rather than a software licensing dispute. An interesting point is that if Netezza had secured the software from Intelligent Integration Systems under an open source license, they would have been able to port it to their new architecture on their own. Sometimes I hear folks complain about vague risks of using FOSS. What is amazing is how billion dollar organizations will put themselves in great strategic jeopardy through dependencies on other organizations with only unclear and uncertain contracts and some hope for goodwill to protect themselves. Building on software distributed under well understood and relatively unrestrictive open source licenses can help a great deal. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
