| Hi, I contacted FSF and was contacted by FSF recently and there is a growing demand for a new global alliance on open source software. As business of Linux based embedded hardware devices is already worth billions $ - WiFi APs, routers, servers, GPS car navigation, car audio systems digital tv boxes control - security equipment house appliances and more and more to be added with every day Free Software Foundation has a real problem to coordinate licensing of GNU open source software products worldwide, globe-wide. There is a growing number of firms, companies, selling GNU open source software products as commercial software products, integrating any such add-on GNU open source software with hardware lock key. As this trend is growing and there is no way to stop it a new global alliance for open source software products is what is needed urgently. There is no way to go to courts with violations of GNU open source licenses due to legal costs and court charges involved. Developers of GNU open source software have been working hard for years, working for the community and today, their job and work is made commercial software product by others and offered for more than 1 US$ on a market. So there is a need a new global alliance to solve the problem of financing of open source software developers as money for sold Linux based open source software products in hardware embedded devices (TomTom and others) goes in millions per day. Darius f.IT forensic expert |
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