Salon: Co-opting open source's good name | Linux Today

Salon: Co-opting open source’s good name

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 20, 1999

Thanks to Bill
Longabaugh
for this link.

“Last month Al Gore riled free software fans by declaring his
campaign Web site part of the “open-source” movement — even as the
site employed Microsoft software to serve up its pages. But you
could forgive him; he probably had no idea what he was talking
about. On Tuesday, however, a company that should have known better
fell into a similar trap — abusing the term “open source” in the
service of its own marketing efforts.

“Computer book publisher O’Reilly & Associates announced
that it was “open sourcing” its recent compendium of essays,
“OpenSources: Voices From the Open Source Revolution.”

Complete
story
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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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