geeks bearing gifts

Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts

Linux Today  Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:31

Computerworld UK: "On it was a differentiation between proprietary software; free software and open source software.

Naturally I asked the presenter for clarification of the terms as I was a little confused. He was unable to clarify..."


 

Beware geeks bearing gifts

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:43

Organisations offering free software could be like drug dealers - creating dependency and cashing in later. That's the warning from open source advocate John Spencer after looking at the UK government's confusion over licensing