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Salon: Co-opting open source’s good name

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.”

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story
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