Re: NASA releases parts of mars robots sotware package as open source.

On a sunny day (Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:00:27 -0000) it happened
rodsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rod Smith) wrote in
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In article <f5goc7$35s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> writes:


On a sunny day (Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:39:47 -0500) it happened John Hasler
<john@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <87ir9g2guk.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Jan Panteltje writes:
NASA releases mars robots sotware package as open source:
http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov/man/overview/index.php

Look at the license. It is neither Free Software nor Open Source.

Well, I am no lawyer, but 'open source' to me means basically: publish
the source.

Actually, the term "open source" has a pretty specific definition:

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a standards body that, among other
things, certifies licenses as being open source (or refuses to offer such
certification). The OSI is starting to make noise about protecting the
name "open source" from those who want to abuse it:

http://www.opensource.org/node/163

As you're just somebody posting on Usenet, you presumably don't have to
worry about the OSI lawyers knocking on your door; however, using the term
"open source" incorrectly does mean you're not communicating effectively.
It's like calling something "green" when in fact it's orange, or at least
blue.

mm, some more noise from them and I drop Linux, libc and the whole ***.
DO YOU HEAR THAT OSI?

Look I wrote 2 operating systems in my life, almost any application you can
think of, now all that remains is to think of a license that f*cks OSI.

Let's see, Intel (the chip maker) copyrighted the word 'inside',
and started suing websites that had somehow the word 'inside' in it.
I have pointed out on Usenet, and to them, that they stole the 'good vibe'
from the Yoga movement (peace is inside), and that _they_ were in fact
capitalizing on very very old religious / spiritual or whatever you like to
call it, basis.
Intel has now abandoned 'Inside' take note.
I have boycotted Intel ever since, and this will remain so, no matter what they
come up with.

I can do the same with OSI definition of open source no problem.

To many lawyers, maybe they should take up programming and shut up.
That would actually add to the OPEN SOURCE pool of software.

Better then their people joining Microsof.
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