[Discussioni] Gates' grand design

[Christopher R. Gabriel]

    Andrea> Vi invio alcuni passaggi molto interessanti di questa
    Andrea> intervista a Gates:
    Andrea> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-6325584-0.html

    Andrea> E' il solito FUD ma veramente chiaro e ben circostanziato.

Gia'.

    Andrea> "How does the GPL (GNU General Public License) factor in?

    Andrea> There is a part of open source called GPL that breaks that
    Andrea> cycle--that is, it makes it impossible for a commercial
    Andrea> company to use any of that work or build on any of that
    Andrea> work.

Esattamente e' "rendere impossibile utilizzare il codice per farne
 software proprietario".

    Andrea> So what you saw with TCP/IP or (e-mail technology)
    Andrea> Sendmail or the browser could never happen. We believe
    Andrea> there should be free software and commercial software;

Infatti. L'uno non implica l'altro, il software libero puo' essere
commerciale.

    Andrea> there should be a rich ecosystem that works around
    Andrea> that. There are people who believe that commercial
    Andrea> software should not exist at all

Gli stimatori del public domain, forse. Quanti sono? si sa?

    Andrea> --that there should be no
    Andrea> jobs or taxes around commercial software at all. And
    Andrea> that's a small group, but the GPL was created with that
    Andrea> goal in mind.

Vabbeh' dai ora la spara alta :)

    Andrea> And so people should understand the GPL. When people say
    Andrea> open source they often mean the GPL. When someone asks a
    Andrea> question, "So what about open source?" do they mean open
    Andrea> source or do they mean the GPL? We believe in that
    Andrea> ecosystem and having the mix of free and commercial
    Andrea> software.

Proprio quello che vogliamo e' che gli utenti/aziende capisca la GPL
(ma non solo, anche altra licenze libere) e tutti i suoi vantaggi!

    Andrea> What's your position on publishing source code?

    Andrea> We have no objection to people publishing source codes. We
    Andrea> do that ourselves under certain terms. Some of our source
    Andrea> codes are out there and very available, like Windows
    Andrea> CE. Some generally require a license, like Windows
    Andrea> itself. 

Qui parla di licenza come pegno in denaro, come spesso accade anche
in Italia (ricordo il sito www.festainternet.it che faceva spesso
questo errore).

    Andrea> We have no objection to free software, which has
    Andrea> been around forever. But we do think there are problems
    Andrea> for commercial users relative to the GPL, and we are just
    Andrea> making sure people understand the GPL.

Aspetta che tutta la capiscano! Certo che sono contenti che ci sia il
software libero, ma vogliono quello che puo' essere reso
proprietario. Se non erro Microsoft utilizzava (o utilizza ancora?)
l'implementazione BSD del TCP/IP. Chi e' piu' informato mi corregga,
per favore.

    Andrea> [The whole theme of what we are doing with developers is
    Andrea> XML Web services.] Unfortunately, that has been
    Andrea> misconstrued in many ways. It's a topic that you can leap
    Andrea> on and say, "Microsoft doesn't make free software." Hey,
    Andrea> we have free software; 

Si', certo, dove 'free' == 'gratis'.

    Andrea> the world will always have free
    Andrea> software. I mean, if you characterize it that way, that's
    Andrea> not right. But if you say to people, "Do you understand
    Andrea> the GPL?" And they'll say, "Huh?" And they're pretty
    Andrea> stunned when the Pac-Man-like nature of it is described to
    Andrea> them.

Cerchiamo di far dire il meno possibile "Huh?" allora!.

-- 
Christopher 

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