Category Archives: Open Source

Software Licensing – Don’t Complain If You Don’t Like The License

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Wayne Borean

Over and over again, I hear complaints about software licensing. The two main complaints are always the same: 1) Proprietary Licenses are too restrictive. 2) The General Public License is too restrictive. Do you see a theme here?

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SCOicide – The SCO Group vs the World

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Wayne Borean

On June 28, 2002, Darl McBride became the Chief Executive Officer of Caldera International, and proceeded to kill the company. The above statement may seem rather strong to those who don’t know the background. Caldera International was a Linux Distributor. … Continue reading →

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Faux FLOSS Fundamentalists

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Wayne Borean

What’s This About? Our community and the people in it, are under attack. We are being disrupted, we are being defamed, we are being lied to, and, in some instances, we are even having our lives invaded. Sounds serious. Can … Continue reading →