Apparently there's a lot of discussion of this over at NZOSS-openchat, which might be a more appropriate forum.
-jim On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:38:23AM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 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 > >
