Have you noticed the logical fallacies and flaws that guy can put in a
few sentences?
"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software,
you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the
government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux
is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in
an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way
that the license works."
-Steve Balmer, CEO Microsoft
I read 12 fallacies and flaws in 5 sentences:
01 - "the license" as if there's only one.
02 - "use any open-source software", not write or copy.
03 - "the rest of your software open source" in your office, your
company?
04 - "if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest
[...]" is simply not true. First, by using it you commit to nothing
(unlike Windows shrink-wrap license), and most licenses allow you to
copy and/or include in your own code.
05 - "If the government wants [...], it should", thanks for telling
them.
06- "in the public domain" was the term used 20 years ago for open
source. Not useful any more.
07 - "Linux is not [...]", coming from the general to the particular
just for the sake of attack: 'Divide and conquer'.
08 - "Linux is not in the public domain", so what? Straw man forever.
09 - "Linux is a cancer [...]" is an obvious ad-programme attack,
loaded with malevolence.
10 - "[...] that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to
everything it touches." It would seem that if you ever use it, or even
look at it from afar, you must give your firstborn to Richard Stallman.
I thought it was only if you try to replicate it inside your software
(which surely they must have tried with little success).
11 - "the way that the license works" doesn't make clear if it's "the
license" mentioned first in a generic way, or the Linux license.
12 - Kant's Golden Rule -- suppose everyone does what Ballmer tells us
is so bad, use GPL licences, do you see any bad consequence for mankind?
What would it be?
Not bad, even for a microsoftie.
Un saludo,
Alex.
Mike Dougherty wrote:
>
> Jon Stevens wrote:
> > --
> > "Open source is not available to commercial companies."
> > -Steve Balmer, CEO Microsoft
> > <http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html>
> >
>
> "The last I checked, Red Hat Software, VA Linux Systems, IBM, SGI, and
> Hewlett-Packard were all "commercial companies".
> - Eric S. Raymond
> <http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-01-010-20-OP-MS>
>
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