My fiscal responcibility to my company ver. Open Source - advice please

[Lloyd Budd]

On 21-May-04, at 20:41, Paul DiRezze wrote:

> Another link that may be of use.
>
> http://news.com.com/Open-source+companies+see+profit+aplenty/2100 
> -7344_3-5216387.html?tag=nl

That is fantastically poor journalism ... or I should say
standard journalism .

It does not talk about profitability other than hand waving .

The MySQL vise-chief marketeer Zack Urlocker provides
quite the 'sound' bite , "There's always going to be grassroots
people... who see open source as a free ride" .

Like many , Zack Urlocker , also presents confusing
information about licensing .  I can modify GPL software
(within fair use) without distributing the resulting source ,
as long as I do not distribute , or copy (outside of fair use)
the software .  Entity law seems like where distribute and
copy may becoming interesting ;-)

Lastly , who considers Novell or IBM ,
"Open-source companies" ?!


Speaking out of his .... ,
Lloyd

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