[ale] More from Business Week

[John Wells]

Reading "The Linux Uprising", one quote rubbed me the wrong way:

"Before using open-source software, tech companies must sign a license in
which they promise to give away innovations they build on top of it."

Why must the press always confuse open source with the GPL?  It's blatant
misinformation, and I'll bet that sentence turns some managers away from
considering open source software.

The GPL is a great license, but there are so many other open source
licenses out there that do allow you to redistribute without open sourcing
your code.  I wish that just once, a large-scale non-tech oriented
magazine like Business Week would set this record straight.

I'm not as hard core in my beliefs as Stallman, and I choose to view open
source as an attitude, not a license.

BS like this only contributes to Microsoft's FUD and cancer commentary.

John




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