Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Mar 2006 15:51 UTC, submitted by george
Martin Fink, Hewlett Packard's Linux vice-president, yesterday slammed the open source community's complex licensing schemes, suggesting that there are too many open source licences for developers to manage properly. Closing a presentation at the Linux World Conference and Expo in Sydney yesterday, Fink said, "If there's one thing that you take home from my speech today it is: do not make more open source licences."
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RE: which one is HP going to use
by chekr on Fri 31st Mar 2006 02:55
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"HP hasn't released anything major under any opensource license"
Agreed...
I do wish that OpenMail (now Scalix) was opened up...that has to be one of the biggest missed opportunities I can think of (personal opinion of course), Though to be fair can someone who nows post here some of their contributions?
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2006-01-17
It's nice that HP wants to start a whine fest on which OpenSource licenses need to die, but I don't think its earned the right to make any such judgement. HP hasn't released anything major under any opensource license. HP-UX, openview, most of there printer drivers, all of there printer firmware and controllers are all closed source. When they start putting code where their mouth is they can comment on what others are doing.