On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 03 July 2010 11:26:27 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Friday 02 July 2010 16:20:43 Balaji Damodaran wrote:
It was surprising that no one is flaming IBM yet. They're not so
friendly to opensource either
pure FUD - IBM has made available a huge amount of code as open source
and ?there are huge resources built and maintained by IBM to support open
source.
It is not as black and white however. ?For example, ?they hold the
largest number of software patents in the world and continue to strongly
lobby for expanding the scope of patenting in the world. ? They even
argued to the Supreme court in US that software patents benefit free and
open source software.
nothing is black and white - take yahoo!, they contribute their satellite
images freely to openstreetmap, release a lot of the code they write into open
source and happily patent a lot of software. There is an old english proverb
'he who lives in a glass house should undress in the dark'. If we apply the
principle of only black and white, very few if anyone on this list qualifies
to
be here. (certainly I do not). But let us be reasonable - there is a huge
amount of 'white' in IBM which is thus much higher on the side of the good
guys than microsoft. Of course Redhat is almost pure white on the scale.
let people who use fully free software on their mobiles, who do not touch
google apps, who only use non-patented hardware flame IBM. Let the rest of us
keep our peace.
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regards
kg
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