On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: > This piece was brought to my attention by /. this morning. What it's a > piece of, I'm not too sure. IMO Chapmann Tripp should be shot for using > such inflammatory language, but I suppose that without any licenses to > write, they'd be going out of business. Altruism isn't a word they > understand in this context, I take it. > > Some of the highlights: > > "Understanding the Infectious Effects of Open Source Licences" - so > they're all bad for you then? > > "64 As its standard position, all Development Agreements should prohibit > the use of any open source code in the supplied software." - so how are > we going to develop ( eclipse ), compile ( gcc ), publish ( apache )... > it then? > > It's put me off my morning coffee, that's for sure. > > http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/open-source/open-source-legal
What a load of ignorant poppycock, pure FUD, nothing more nothing less. Why do we have to pay, as a society, for somebody to produce this sort of scare-mongering nonsense. Has he simply been bought? He's wanting suppliers to warrant the performance of GPL software, yet he fails to note how (in)effective any supposed warrant of commercial and propriety software actually is in practice? Anybody managed to get a cent out of a commercial software supplier when it fails? He's wanting to increase the costs of running many government operations when the tax base cannot support it. He can't have it both ways. Schools no longer allowed to use Macs eh? Remember that the underlying Darwin O/S is a mixture of BSD and Mach, and is downloadable for free from Apple. Radio New Zealand to take down it's entire WWW operation? It runs on Debian and is created using an Open Source CMS system. -- CS
