Association for Computing Machinery Helps Smear Open Source
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2012-05-30 17:23:27 UTC
- Modified: 2012-05-30 17:23:27 UTC
Summary: BSD developers called "zealots" in a magazine from the Association for Computing Machinery
THIS bizarrely-titled item from a respectable source got the attention of some BSD developers.
"I was just reading the April's issue of the Communications of the ACM (the flagship magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery), and noticed that OpenBSD and its developers were mentioned in one article, in a rather negative way,"
writes one person in the OpenBSD lists.
"Some FRAND-pushing lobbyists are using the CACM to criticize proponents of open standards," wrote to us an informant, who noticed this redundant attack on developers who merely did the right thing.
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