RE: [SLUG] Biased Paranoia Against Open Source (Was Online FileArchive)

From: Jeffrey Kroll (jkroll@pboa.com)
Date: Fri Jul 29 2005 - 09:26:38 EDT


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Jahn [mailto:eric@ejahn.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:05 AM
> To: SLUG
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Biased Paranoia Against Open Source (Was
> Online FileArchive)
>
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:30 -0600, John Pugh wrote:
> > Bummer - guess that rules out pretty much a large portion of open
> > source since MS and IBM(and others) hold significant patents that
> > "could" pose legal problems.. In that case, you may find that the
> > proprietary licensed version of iFolder is a less expensive
> > alternative and provides everything you are looking for and
> much more.
>
> So, by this host's logic, since Microsoft is also constantly
> being sued as well for patent infringement (as they predict
> for mono), their products shouldn't be installed within their
> host environment either.
> Sounds like a double standard biased against open source
> <sarcasm> Wouldn't want to use anything that someone possibly
> else would possibly desire to lay claim to... that would be
> way too risky. </sarcasm>
>

Damn I better around and quickly remove all instances of "Microsoft"
from my enterprise workplace environment.

   Jeffrey Kroll :: IT Coordinator :: PBOA & Risk Services
941.955.0793 :: 1800 Second St. Suite 910 :: Sarasota, FL 34236

"Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny"

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