Many of them don't care about licenses. Open Source consist of a number of licenses other than GPL. But licensing between novell and microsoft makes it tricky. And the recent "open trade-secret documentation" from microsoft makes it tricky to implement in Free Software(trying to be open source but actually, can see cannot touch, makes no difference). Although most might criticize the dealing between Novell and Microsoft, it's great to see a recent news, with Novell's VP criticizing the dealing. http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/06/mix-novells-de-icaza-criticizes-microsoft-patent-deal
If society permit, we should see more of Free Software Society instead of Open Source Software Society, as Free Software is extremely concerned with licenses and dealings, thus the GPLv3 is designed to block these dealings. John On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:11 +0800, Chris Henry wrote: > Hmm, > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not only sarcastic. I'm also sad to see that Microsoft/Novel is > > trying to attack the next generation of business users. I wanted to > > generate at least some noise because nobody replied first. After free > > brainwashing sessions like that we'll see fresh graduated kids with > > Novell's tricky ideas of business, however they should know what that > > "basement" is shaky. > > And this is not the best way to be introduced to that kind of "open > > source spirit" with sharply underwater stones. What's why "to be fair" > > the license and other issues should be explained first. Unfortunately, > > students might not want to continue listen after that, so it's > > probably a bad idea. It's OS3 call anyway. End of flame (for sure > > now). > I guess we have to give OS3 people a little break. To conduct open > source talk, you probably will need a great open source advocate as > speaker. It's not that easy to find such speaker in Singapore. Plus > having such big name like Novell would probably attract more students. > >From my experience, students (at least here) are generally > disinterested with technical talks, unless of course some big > companies are attending (and there is that opportunity to, you know, > get tangible benefits like jobs/internships opportunities, etc.). > > OT: Sucks, I'm still kicking myself in the ass for missing the chance > to attend Ian Murdock's talk in NUS a few months ago. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
