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Open the Initiative

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 17, 2007

“In his explanation, Tiemann took the tack that to deny a
hostile company the right to their own open source licenses would
make the open source community a bunch of hypocrites and deny
Microsoft the chance to become enlightened in the ways of open
source. This is not a bad argument to take, because it takes the
moral high road to justify the OSI’s decision.

“But some questions still remain unanswered…”

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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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