http://informage.net/articles/2003/10/02/ex-novell-vp-on-sco-and-open-source en-us 40 tales from anglospheric la-la-land <p>The usually rather tacky cnet has <a href="http://news.com.com/2010-7344-5083904.html">an excellent piece</a> by Joe Firmage, who I've never previously heard of but is apparently an ex-VP of Novell who was involved in a key part of the whole SCO 0wns Linux debacle. </p> <p> <blockquote><i>The model of open science is "communistic" in the sense of community ownership--or rather community stewardship. But innumerable highly successful organizations and institutions in America are founded upon the ideal of community stewardship--including our democracy itself. </p> <p> The downfall of communism was due to state control by totalitarians--an attribute embodied by today&rsquo;s commercial software industry far more than by the emergent open-source science of information technology. </i></blockquote></p> Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:28:56 +0100 urn:uuid:e4de126767e756f5834821bc73f9ce89 sean http://informage.net/articles/2003/10/02/ex-novell-vp-on-sco-and-open-source postage http://informage.net/articles/trackback/22