Brinkhorst aanpakken op eerstvolgende congres!

[Henk Elegeert]

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Antid Oto wrote:
> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
>
> Henk Elegeert wrote:
>> Die vrees wordt elders gedeeld:
>>
>> http://www.ososs.nl/article.jsp?article=10177
>> Ososs - Programma Open Standaarden en Open Source Software
>> voor de overheid
>>
>> "
>> Octrooien maken het Linux moeilijk [..]
>
> Ik denk dat de vrees niet echt gegrond is. IBM (pro-Linux) heeft een
> groot deel van de patenten in handen en hebben al laten weten deze niet
> tegen de Linux community te zullen gebruiken, uitsluitend uit
> zelfverdediging. Vreemde redenatie van IBM overigens, zouden ze geleerd
> hebben van het Sco debâcle?

Ik kan je niet helemaal volgen ....


http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26806088
InformationWeek > LinuxWorld > Exec Says IBM Won't Use Linux
Patents As Weapon > August 5, 2004

"
  Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior VP of technology and
manufacturing, pledged Wednesday not to use his company's
extensive patent portfolio against Linux, a line that drew
applause from attendees at the LinuxWorld conference.

Few in the audience actually believed IBM had ever
contemplated such a move. Rather, it was his follow up line
that carried the punch. "We urge other companies to make the
same statement," he said--a remark that many took to be
aimed at Linux critic and competitor, Microsoft.

Whether patented software functionality will ever provide
the basis for a suit aimed at Linux is a subject of frequent
speculation among Linux backers and users.

Almost lost in the applause was a qualifier to Donofrio's
statement that IBM wouldn't resort to its patents. As the
crowd responded, he added, "unless forced to do so," an
apparent reference to the fact that IBM is being sued by SCO
Group Inc. for having allegedly donated code to Linux that
was SCO intellectual property. Donofrio didn't describe any
circumstances in which IBM might assert its own patent rights.

Donofrio said the open-source movement was helping move
forward an age of unprecedented discoveries. Linux and other
open-source code are helping power innovation in
pharmaceuticals, genome research, nanotechnology and
supercomputing.

"No single vendor, no matter how large, can claim a monopoly
on innovation," he said.

Open-source code is providing a common software
infrastructure, allowing budgets and efforts to shift more
toward innovation. Wider access to low-cost computing
resources will tend to generate more-level playing fields in
many industries. Business leaders "will have to rethink what
creates competitive advantage," he predicted. "Linux is not
about free; it's about freedom--it's owned by no one; it's
owned by everyone."

At the same time, the United States can't claim it is the
only society capable of generating computer skills and the
highly paid jobs associated with rapid technological
advance. Good jobs are moving overseas, and the answer to
the problem "won't be found in raising trade barriers," he said.

"This competition may turn paradoxically on how well
societies embrace open collaboration across borders," he
added. If the United Statescontinues to seed the world with
open-source code and lower the cost of entry to competitive
businesses, it may in the long run find jobs created here
catering to new markets abroad.
"



http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26800232
SCO Turns Focus Away From Legal Battles    Aug. 2, 2004

"
President and CEO Darl McBride focused his speech at SCO
Forum on the company's strategy for getting its Unix-based
products back on the map.

By Larry Greenemeier,  InformationWeek
Aug. 2, 2004
URL:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26800232

More than 400 of SCO Group faithful packed into an MGM Grand
Hotel ballroom Monday to hear a very different message at
SCO Forum than they did a year ago. Talk of
intellectual-property litigation was toned down to allow
time for the company to address its strategy for getting its
Unix-based products back on the map.

"We will continue to defend Unix, and we will continue to
see that it has a bright future," president and CEO Darl
McBride told his audience of customers, software vendors,
and channel partners.

Although he devoted a portion of his address to revisiting
SCO's legal action against IBM and portraying his company as
an underdog reeling from IBM's decision to pull out of
Project Monterrey, a now-defunct joint project to create a
64-bit version of the Unix operating system to run on
x86-based servers, McBride also talked up SCO's plans for a
32- and 64-bit-compatible version of Unix to run on servers
powered by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. processors.
.....
"

> Niettemin, software patenten zijn overbodige schadelijke constructies
> IMHO. Dat Brinkhorst (het linkerhandje van Bolkesteijn) blijkbaar voor
> is geeft wel aan dat actievoeren noodzakelijk is en blijft.
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/05/1234237&tid=136&tid=163&tid=155

Eens, Antid.
Misschien leest ie mee .... :)


"
Red Hat CEO Urges More Code Sharing

Software exec rails against 'legal intimidation.'

By Charles Babcock,  InformationWeek
Aug. 3, 2004
URL:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805700

When it comes to selling technology, U.S. software companies
should seek to make the country's "global piece of the pie
bigger," not try to restrict others' use of open-source
software, Red Hat Inc. CEO Matthew Szulik said during a
speech in San Francisco on Tuesday. And the U.S. practice of
issuing patents and copyrights breeds intimidating claims by
their holders and generates "a veiled threat of legal
intimidation" to users of open-source code, he said.

Speaking at the LinuxWorld trade show, Szulik said more
contributions to open-source software projects, and wider
participation, will put the right software resources in
people's hands overseas and give them the means to improve
their societies. The Boston-accented Szulik put nearly as
much foreign policy in his keynote address to LinuxWorld as
Sen. John Kerry put into his acceptance speech at the recent
Democratic National Convention. Szulik even ended with a
quote from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy. But the gist
of his message was that the United States can't afford to
entangle itself in copyright and patent suit technicalities,
with the rest of the world eager to move ahead.

Szulik said he met recently with the president of India,
"who spent an hour with me talking about how he was going to
use open-source software to move a billion people and
India's educational system into the 21st century.

But he criticized U.S. software companies "whose products
have been commoditized but they continue to extort revenue"
from customers who were locked into the product years ago.
Such practices won't survive in a world capable of rapidly
building its own software and catching up with the United
States, Szulik said. He also said an intimidating legal
environment wouldn't help spread the benefits of innovation.

The SCO Group Inc. has filed suit against IBM, claiming it
had donated Unix code to Linux that violated SCO's
copyright, and has threatened to sue large companies that
use Linux software.

....
"

Tenslotte nog deze link:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26806464
Open Source Stress

"
Customers brace for the future as the intellectual-property
agendas of the biggest tech companies seem ready to collide

By Charles Babcock and Larry Greenemeier,  InformationWeek
Aug. 9, 2004


...
Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, Darl McBride, SCO Group Inc. CEO
and Linux public enemy No. 1, largely sat on the sidelines,
defending the market for commercial Unix. There was little
new information about the company's $5 billion
intellectual-property infringement lawsuit against IBM and
suits against some large Linux users, but, McBride told
InformationWeek, "if we lose in court, then Linux is at that
point a runaway train, and we never will chase it down."

...
Open source will help establish a shared worldwide computing
environment, Red Hat CEO Szulik says.
...

"

Nou vooruit, deze dan nog voor de minister: ;)

"
Software Revival

Software vendors hand aging products to open-source
community, giving customers more control

By Larry Greenemeier,  InformationWeek
July 26, 2004
URL:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=25600049

Students, faculty, and staff returning to Golden Gate
University this fall will have remote access to database,
printing, and E-mail functions from any Web browser, no
longer having to connect through the school's network. The
reason for this newfound freedom: open-source software.

The implication of the San Francisco institution using open
source goes deeper than simply trying an alternative to
proprietary products. It shows how the popularity of open
source is influencing the strategy of proprietary software
vendors, especially how they deal with older products.
..
"

Henk Elegeert

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