Concerns about open source use can fuel internal naysayers at the acquiror who favor an internal solution over acquisition, says LinuxInsider. Embedded open source software may raise questions about maintaining segregation of the acquired code after the acquisition or potential costs to replace portions of the acquired code base.
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What a shudder inducing slab of lawyer-speak.
There are several “best practices” that should be adopted to facilitate compliance on an ongoing basis, as well as to enhance the opportunities for a successful liquidity event.
As far as I was able to understand the article, it says: before you buy software, check the licensing terms and ensure that derivative components have complied with the licenses of their dependencies. This goes for FOSS too.
Wow. Here it is again:
…convince everyone involved in development of software that all software is distributed pursuant to license terms that govern its use and that these terms must be reviewed to ensure compliance with open source obligations.
There is a special hell reserved for people who cloak the banality of their thoughts in hideous language like this.
What the heck is an “acquiror”? I have never heard the word. Does she mean “Acquirer” or “Purchaser”? Obviously a banal correlative like “purchaser” poorly befits a 21st floor shaking corporate decision such as: let’s buy Linux for the typists.
Ms Copenhaver was educated at the Dickinson – America’s oldest law school. Her article suggests it is well time to shut it down.
Oh and before I forget ….
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I immediately disregard the contents. For those who haven’t figured it out, LinuxInsider is a thinly veiled, anti-Linux web site. I suspect it is funded by Microsoft, SCO, SUN or their ilk. Every once in a while, LinuxInsider throws in an article that is intended to sound somewhat positively objective about Linux. The rest of the time it is a proving grounds for anti-Linux and anti-FOSS FUD. You might as well get your Linux news from Paul Thurrott.
just look at the links at the bottom of the page and check them at netcraft…. need I say more ?