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Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Red Hat flags OSI offenders on partner site (2007) (2007)

According to The Register, Red Hat are doing something about the proliferation of non-free software trying to claim itself as ‘Open Source’, merely because source code is available.
It looks like Michael Tiemann (one of the guys behind Cygnus – one of the first Free Software companies) and his plan to clean this mess up is working. Better, Michael spoke of ‘freedom’ when talking about this in a recent blog entry.
Things are starting to come together. Now, we just need a patch to remove ESR from the tree.

Published: Wed Jul 25 2007 05:26:23 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by