-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software # A scandalous book published on-line # Just look at this...
I looked at this, and it is clear that the author doean't grasp the concept of Open Source at all. He makes this especially plain in chapter II when he tells of his friends' use of PHPNuke to improve a web site for his online newspaper. He makes the mistaken assumption that since his friends made the site using Open Source software that neither he nor they own the copyright to the site itself. He seems to make this the basis for his whole book, when in fact, the actual content of the site belongs legally to the creator of that content and it is only the software that is free for all to use. He also seems to be making the point that there can never be commercial apps for Linux because the Linux kernel is under the GPL license. Wrong again. Just look at Oracle, which in the enterprise is touted as one of the best, if not the best, database system available. And Oracle is definitely not the only commercial software out there for Linux. The conclusion he probably would have come to, if he had researched Open Source more thoroughly, is that the operating system is free for all to use, as are the development tools, and thus greatly reduces the production costs involved in making commercial software. My conclusion is that either this author works for Microsoft, or he is simply terribly missguided, so much so that I stopped reading somewhere in the middle of chapter II. PRINCE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAiS2IAl2SNUPt1I8RAoV8AJ97q+2LSZoaQLGqma5B/2CKA8hwMQCaAkzv ukq7uSzQZruw9Al1rUnfNWI= =uGcw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
