Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 April 2004 15:51, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software > # A scandalous book published on-line > # Just look at this... > > I looked at this, and it is clear that the author doean't grasp the concept > of Open Source at all. He makes this especially plain in chapter II when > he tells of his friends' use of PHPNuke to improve a web site for his > online newspaper. He makes the mistaken assumption that since his friends > made the site using Open Source software that neither he nor they own the > copyright to the site itself. He seems to make this the basis for his Interesting to note, based on his views of Open Source, are that he chose to publish his "book" online, in a format that is very much Open Source. One would have thought that such a blunder would have been thought of first! Obviously not. ;-) Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAigbfcqOpPRWIadcRAkNLAKCKjhNNNl2pZAzpVL7GN3mZ7+8oNQCghvB4 qUTGqeOi4Kwi9aunugMzvSM= =Ngrd -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software
Derek Broughton wrote: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software A scandalous book published on-line right... Just look at this... [URL=http://www.e-balkani.com/book]The Traps of Linux...[/URL] Oh please no, don't make me read it. Get a _translator_!! a shame. ignore this moron. that's the best thing to do, i guess. steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software
* Lorenzo Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040423 09:52]: > My conclusion is that either this author works for Microsoft, or he is > simply terribly missguided, so much so that I stopped reading > somewhere in the middle of chapter II. Or maybe he's a troll who went to a lot of trouble. -- Lance Simmons signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software # A scandalous book published on-line # Just look at this... I looked at this, and it is clear that the author doean't grasp the concept of Open Source at all. He makes this especially plain in chapter II when he tells of his friends' use of PHPNuke to improve a web site for his online newspaper. He makes the mistaken assumption that since his friends made the site using Open Source software that neither he nor they own the copyright to the site itself. He seems to make this the basis for his whole book, when in fact, the actual content of the site belongs legally to the creator of that content and it is only the software that is free for all to use. He also seems to be making the point that there can never be commercial apps for Linux because the Linux kernel is under the GPL license. Wrong again. Just look at Oracle, which in the enterprise is touted as one of the best, if not the best, database system available. And Oracle is definitely not the only commercial software out there for Linux. The conclusion he probably would have come to, if he had researched Open Source more thoroughly, is that the operating system is free for all to use, as are the development tools, and thus greatly reduces the production costs involved in making commercial software. My conclusion is that either this author works for Microsoft, or he is simply terribly missguided, so much so that I stopped reading somewhere in the middle of chapter II. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAiS2IAl2SNUPt1I8RAoV8AJ97q+2LSZoaQLGqma5B/2CKA8hwMQCaAkzv ukq7uSzQZruw9Al1rUnfNWI= =uGcw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software
On (23/04/04 01:05), Derek Broughton wrote: > To: debianuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:05:07 -0300 > Subject: Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software > > > The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software > > A scandalous book published on-line > > right... > > > Just look at this... > > > > [URL=http://www.e-balkani.com/book]The Traps of Linux...[/URL] > > Oh please no, don't make me read it. Get a _translator_!! I looked in the expectation of finding something tangible to consider but it was verging on the inarticulate. In skimming a couple of the introductory pages, I gained no sense of the case being made. If that's the best the anti-OSS camp can do, I'd say we're pretty safe ;) Regards Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software
> The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software > A scandalous book published on-line right... > Just look at this... > > [URL=http://www.e-balkani.com/book]The Traps of Linux...[/URL] Oh please no, don't make me read it. Get a _translator_!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software
The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software A scandalous book published on-line Just look at this... [URL=http://www.e-balkani.com/book]The Traps of Linux...[/URL] No comment... Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
