[plug] Software License Evaluation

[Shayne O'Neill]

Yeah. and maybe.

Theres no doubt theres a definate agenda there. But some of the legal
analysis seems pretty good as far as I can tell (Jeremy M.. chime in here
big fella).

You are imho quite right about the take on sun AND I'll add I was mildly
incensed at some of the , frankly offensive, crap written about Andrew
Tanenbaum (sp?). Seems cos Andy T had some (frankly quite good) criticisms
of linux, say 10 years ago, folks fall over themselves to point out he
doesnt know what his talking about.... ignoring that the guy is a freaking
monument to in-depth computer science (As I suggested, Linus was probably
Andrews most successfull 'student').

But the legal stuff is good. Demystifying is never a bad thing, and PJ's
droogs have done some amazing research.

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On Mon, 31 May 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 11:19, Senectus - wrote:
> > As for suggestions.. you could try PJ at groklaw, she is pretty deeply
> > involved in that sort of area.. and she's the only "legal industry" person
> > that I know that can talk in "commoner" and still not leave out the
> > important bits...
>
> I wouldn't go there if I wanted an unbiased opinion, though. The site is
> a personal weblog grown huge, and it's still 90% opinion.
>
> While I tend to agree with some of it, I often think the site goes much
> too far in dismissing people who disagree - the recent sun-bashing, in
> particular, ignores some very valid points because of the agenda behind
> them.
>
> Alas, I can't offer any particularly good suggestions of where /to/ go.
> It'll depend almost entirely on the nature of the app and how you work
> work with it, anyway.
>
> Craig Ringer
>
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