http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2191347/gpl3-author-calls-open-source
------ GPL3 co-author Eben Moglen says that open source users must unite in denying Microsoft's intellectual property claims Microsoft attempting to 'divide and conquer' open source software Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 05 Jun 2007 Companies should not fall for the temptations of purchasing a licence for Microsoft's intellectual property with their open source applications because it allows the software giant to "divide and conquer" the software market. The comments were made by Eben Moglen, co-author of the forthcoming third version of the General Public Licence (GPL) and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center. Typifying open source applications as community software, Moglen argued that it requires a communal defence against patents from companies like Microsoft. But Moglen told vnunet.com in a video interview that some in the community will be tempted to make a "private peace with the invader". "Divide-and-conquer strategies are built around the weakness that it is in the interest of some people to make a private deal for safety and abandon communal defence," Moglen said. "We are trying to prevent a divide-and-conquer strategy from working. So it is important for us to say to people that they have to stick to the common defence. "They cannot make private deals with the invader or the adversaries of the freedom of the software. We all have to stick together." ------ regards, alexander. -- "I can change the rules." Herr Prof Eben http://www.linux.com/blob.pl?id=796772290d97058074d8c909e3dde1eb _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
