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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
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  • Subject: [Cc-bizcom] Various
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:21:46 +0100

A Microsoft blogger on Open Source. The customer responses are interesting and show how real-world consumers of proprietary software believe Open Source might be beneficial to them (wiki-ing MSDN makes lots of sense):

http://weblogs.asp.net/jledgard/archive/2004/08/20/217992.aspx


Businessweek are the latest to discover the joys of the BSD license after Microsoft and AdTI:

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/23/1720241

One point to add to Linus Torvalds' very diplomatic position on Apple using BSD rather than Linux: when NeXT started developing NeXTSTEP - which later became Apple's MacOSX - in the second half of the 1980s, BSD was the only game in town. Linux wouldn't be started for another three or four years, so NeXT didn't have a choice.


Article on "Going Open Source", focussing on Opening existing projects rather than starting new ones but interesting as it's addressed to managers at commercial outfits:

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/0715259

- Rob.




  • [Cc-bizcom] Various, Rob Myers, 08/24/2004

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