Oops, I meant to give you a link to Richard Stallman's article in the cool book Open Sources published by OReilly http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html
Stallman's article is http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/stallman.html
Others especially worth reading there are Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond. Heck it is all good. The whole book is online. I have a paper copy if you want a lend of it... it might be a bit hard to buy these days. Though it might be possible to buy online.
Eric Raymond is a particularly eloquent exponent of open source. His work "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is a very influential piece. You can find it at http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ along with a lot of other cool stuff.
Also I should have mentioned that all this talk of GPL and open source is why it is impossible to buy out open source projects. If you think about it for a little while you can see why. A company that tries to do so just changes itself into an open source company. A lot of companies are seeing that this actually makes good business sense and are doing just that.
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Date: 2002-12-12 08:46 am (UTC)Stallman's article is http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/stallman.html
Others especially worth reading there are Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond. Heck it is all good. The whole book is online. I have a paper copy if you want a lend of it... it might be a bit hard to buy these days. Though it might be possible to buy online.
Eric Raymond is a particularly eloquent exponent of open source. His work "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is a very influential piece. You can find it at http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ along with a lot of other cool stuff.
Also I should have mentioned that all this talk of GPL and open source is why it is impossible to buy out open source projects. If you think about it for a little while you can see why. A company that tries to do so just changes itself into an open source company. A lot of companies are seeing that this actually makes good business sense and are doing just that.