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Incoming thought food
Marc, himself, his blogs, and you reading them
Matthew Langham's Radio Weblog
Here's how this works.
"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 []