ZDNet Australia: HP: Too Many Open Source Licences | Linux Today

ZDNet Australia: HP: Too Many Open Source Licences

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 30, 2006

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“Martin Fink, Hewlett Packard’s Linux vice-president, yesterday
slammed the open source community’s complex licensing schemes,
suggesting that there are too many open source licences for
developers to manage properly.

“Closing a presentation at the Linux World Conference and Expo
in Sydney yesterday, Fink said, ‘If there’s one thing that you take
home from my speech today it is: do not make more open source
licences…'”


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