http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2002/08/13/os-bill-update en-us 40 Technology and Other Fun Stuff <p>Steve Sheldon sent me a URL to the <a href='http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/bill_opensource.html'>RedHat bill</a> which I mentioned <a href='http://www.randomhacks.net/2002/08/12/#ca-open-source-bill'>yesterday</a>. I can't find anything on Mandrake's, IBM's or Linux International's websites, so I'll assume that they're innocent until proven guilty (I don't trust the CNET fact checkers, and I seriously doubt that Linux International's <a href='http://www.li.org/sponsors/sponlist.php?level=1'>corporate members</a> would approve of this silliness).</p> <p>So what's going on? It looks like somebody in RedHat's <a href='http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/'>Open Source Now</a> division is trying to pull a publicity stunt at the Linux World Expo. I'm not convinced that RedHat's management seriously supports this bill; they have a lot of <a href='http://www.redhat.com/marketplace/'>partnerships</a> with companies such as <a href='http://www.redhat.com/marketplace/oracle/'>Oracle</a>.</p> <p><a href='http://www.advogato.org/person/garym/'>garym</a> has has written <a href='http://www.advogato.org/article/532.html'>a scathing satire</a> about this bill. And I have <a href='http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.0/1646.html'>reason to believe</a> that Linus would hate it: <i>And I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology. In fact, I will go as far as saying that making excuses for bad tools due to ideology is <b>stupid</b>, and people who do that think with their gonads, not their brains.</i></p> Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000 urn:uuid:52e86acd-4b0c-49ce-be9b-35b9ba7839df Eric http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2002/08/13/os-bill-update http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/trackback/21