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 dinsdag 8 oktober 2002
Desert Storm 1.1
"I've started referring to the proposed action against Iraq as Desert Storm 1.1, since it reminds me of a Microsoft upgrade: it's expensive, most people aren't sure they want it, and it probably won't work."
    -- Kevin G. Barkes

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9:37:15 PM    comment []  

Do it right. Please...
Matthew is worried about the fate of the FOSSBEL initiative (Free and Open Source Software companies in Belgium), because of reference to the GNU Free software definition. Fear not, Matthew - and read closely what they say. The Apache license is regarded as a Free Software license, but incompatible with the GPL. Oh well. Personally, I find the GPL license being regarded as controversial in some commercial context, where as BSD/Apache being regarded as the Good Guys.

My personal belief is that the GPL/FSF people care more about Freedom (which is a very nice thing!), whereas BSD people care about code and community.

I'm involved in this thing to represent the more liberal BSD-/Apache-style open source developers, and I hope that it will be more of a movement to advocate the use of FOSS in gouvernment and companies, rather than fighting the Holy License War. A bit of the tension currently is choosing a name for the movement, but it seems we will go for a Belgian compromise being nice to both camps.
5:03:25 PM    comment []