Leading items and editorials: What is open source?, Eric S.
Raymond’s latest missive, The Linux Development Platform
Specification and CopyLeft was added as a defendant in the DVD
case.
“What is open source? There have been a few amusing attempts to
characterize the open source world this week; here’s a
summary….”
“Eric S. Raymond’s latest missive is entitled Two faces and Big
Lies; it’s about DeCSS, Napster, and related issues. Eric rips into
just about everybody with this one, from the DVD Copy Control
Association through to people ripping off copyrighted music through
Napster….”
“The Linux Development Platform Specification version 1.0-beta
was released by the Free Standards Project on July 22. LWN
mentioned the release in the daily updates page, but an editorial
slip caused it to be dropped from the July 27 weekly edition. We
regret the error….”