Just as I was writing this post on ignorance of open source models, there was news of a major publisher making a print edition of Wikipedia. This led to backlash reactions which illustrate exactly the kind of misunderstanding that arises when people don’t get open-source licenses (via ReadWriteWeb.
The whole point of Wikipedia is to provide [...]
Tags: GNU·open source·Wikipedia
Controversy arose in several open source projects last week: Ext JS, SpringSource App Platform, and the SWF/FLV specs. Dion has a good summary and concludes with a reminder that most people could care less:
Finally, I know that 99% of the developers out there may not even care, let alone users. There are open source wonks [...]
Tags: GNU·MIT license·open source
