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Re: EU, FB, and the Playdogs (Score: 1)
by Imago on Thursday, May 29 @ 05:01:02 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.euronuke.org | Yes, you are right. The battle now is over Paid Source rather than over Open Source. In five years, I am confident, all government computers and public servers in EU will run on Open Source products. This is as inevitable as the eventual transmutation of communism in China.
As for FB, I don't think AI owes him an apology, which - as I see - has been greatly appreciated by FB, though the latent warning behind it will never be taken into account. It is simply not in the nature of GNU/GPL to release a product, claim money for the privilege to get it one or two months before the general public does (FOUR months in the case with 6.5), and to expect others, nukecops included, to provide universal support and fixes to security holes, and to aesthetically fine-tune or outline the system - just imagine how many theme architects are working out there.
I cannot judge whether the players comply with the GPL (I have read it 5 times and in spite of my being a double doctor in most obtruse transcendental philosophies - that of constitutive German phenomenology of Husserl and Navya-Nyaya logic of India, - I didn't understand it), but I do clearly see that in the case of php-Nuke the play is not fair.
Either FB has to forfeit his financial claims, or to remove all 3d party elements - down to the least bit of source code in his CMS. The other way is to establish a corporation, issue shares and offer free options to contributors.
As far as either alternative seems to be ridicule, sooner or later a FreeNuke or OSN (Open Source Nuke) will be born that will implement the spirit of the fairplay.
Now FB has taken the role of a tyrant capricioso, while the Nuke developers - that of happy and thankful playdogs. |
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