The hype, no thanks to FOX and those Dane Cook promos, has reached a fever pitch (pun intended). The GPL, on the other hand, saw above average adoption rates among open source developers and their projects.
At this rate, GPLv3 will become a reality to accept and for businesses to prepare for. The high transition pace has been maintained, just as hoped and expected by those who were not drinking the Kool-Aid (disinformation [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).
The GPLv3 is not only important because of Novell, but also because of the increasingly-relevant patent battle. The new licence addresses a number of new important issuesl, but like all changes, it is received with hesitance and endless FUD from those whom it hurts the most, notably proprietary software vendors and predatory/anti-consumer monopolies.
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Sam Hiser
2007-10-27 15:51:38
But what if the rate of increase of the rate of increase should fall by 4 percent?
Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-27 22:48:20
Then Al Gillen from IDC would argue that GNU/Linux (as measured by new hardware with an operating system preinstalled) is 'dying'. And yes... Al is particularly close to a very large company.
Web-based knowledge management system. (competing directly with, i.e. sharepoint)
Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-28 14:45:35
SubSonica,
I've watched this project for a long time (Tectonic covers it a lot) and I was under the impression that it revolves around Microsoft Office. A closer inspection later revealed that it was purely LAMP, IIRC.
Alfresco is another one to keep an eye on when it comes to SharePoint (there's another one which integrates with OpenOffice.org, but I can't recall its name). It's GPLv-licensed (transformed not so long ago), but Matt Asay hesitates on GPLv3, for now (ASP loophole being the excuse).
It certainly does seem like they receive money from taxpayers for nothing, or for IBM to do mass layoffs/closure at Albany under the guise of "making a new spinoff"...
If the election is run by platforms that have back doors "baked-in" and if the communications are overseen by GAFAM, you would not have to be a "nutty MAGAt" to dispute the outcome
"It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection, or hypocrisy. Use of the expression to discredit or deflect a claim of wrongdoing by attacking the originator of the claim for their own similar behaviour (rather than acknowledging the guilt of both) is the tu quoque logical fallacy."
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Sam Hiser
2007-10-27 15:51:38
Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-27 22:48:20
SubSonica
2007-10-28 14:22:07
http://www.knowledgetree.com http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource
Web-based knowledge management system. (competing directly with, i.e. sharepoint)
Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-28 14:45:35
I've watched this project for a long time (Tectonic covers it a lot) and I was under the impression that it revolves around Microsoft Office. A closer inspection later revealed that it was purely LAMP, IIRC.
Alfresco is another one to keep an eye on when it comes to SharePoint (there's another one which integrates with OpenOffice.org, but I can't recall its name). It's GPLv-licensed (transformed not so long ago), but Matt Asay hesitates on GPLv3, for now (ASP loophole being the excuse).