On Thursday 04 March 2010 02:28 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Linux Lingam <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:20 AM, satyaakam goswami
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Mohan Sundaram
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Need to fight this ridiculous crap.
>>
>>
>>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property
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>
no one seems to realize this is akin to accusing leading governments
of the world to be pirates themselves,
since many governments pay for contributing and developing FOSS, as
well as for its adoption.
someone please tell China this.
hehehehe!
this is the best way for the anti-FOSS groups to shoot themselves
in the foot.
nobody could have done it better.
I have to agree with you Niyam. What IIPA is doing is conflating a
competition issue (governments preferring open source) with an IP
issue (by casting aspersions on the legality of open source).
I was asked for a quote on this issue by Business Standard and I sent
him the quote below.
"Open Source licenses have been around for more than 20 years and have
been widely accepted by industry and governments. Open source licenses
use the framework of copyright law to enable the sharing of knowledge.
These licenses encourage users to share, modify and improve the software
in a legal manner. For users who are caught between high license fees
and piracy, open source offers a third alternative whereby the software
is available without license fees and users pay only for the value-added
services like support, customization and training that they really need."
Wow I am happy to know that the selfish and narrow minded proprietory
software developers have become so concerned about their time coming to
an end.
We as FOSS promoters or a society based on the free software culture
have grown so much that people have to do harakiri to protect their
selfish closed and intransparent methodologies.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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