"Caldera must prove that its new approach offers value and stability to corporate users trying Linux for the first time, and it needs to support its extensive reseller channel at least as well as SCO did. If the company can adequately tackle these two significant challenges, the insults won't matter. Caldera will have carved out a nice little piece of the Linux-in-business market."

"In this scenario, if you don't trust the application's vendor you can discard their finished program, look through their source code, then recompile it to your own satisfaction. In this way security holes can be detected much quicker, too, the code being examined by a whole developer community instead of just a single vendor."

"So who's calling whose bluff? An intriguing game of chicken is enveloping Microsoft's plans to port its C# language and run-time to BSD, with software libre leaders vowing to give the Beast a taste of its own embrace n' extend medicine."

"I have just read an incredible article about an exchange between Caldera's Ransom Love and Richard Stallman. Forgive me for interjecting myself into another's fight, but I think this has gotten so tied up in "personality" that it is time to interject the little guy back into the discussion."

"Already, leading legal scholars, including Stanford University's Lawrence Lessig, are praising the decision for offering (as Lessig put it) "smart and innovative" rules concerning antitrust regulation in the digital era. The big question is this: Will the decision change Microsoft's behavior?"

"Open-source software has been called many things: a movement, a fad, a virus, a Communist conspiracy, even the heart and soul of the Internet. But one point is often overlooked: Open-source software is also a highly effective vehicle for the transfer of wealth from the industrialized world to developing countries."

"A well-marketed Open Source database (like the one Red Hat proposes) could potentially do more to cement the hold of Open Source software in the enterprise than the Linux OS itself. In effect, it would transform Linux into a complete Open Source Web applications platform, to compete with commercial offerings from the likes of Sun, Oracle or Microsoft."

The Pine license is not a Free Software license, nor does it meet the Open Source Definition. Why is it included in the distribution, then? Well, because it's "free enough."

"The Open Source model will be freely accepted commercially and one day there will be no preferred alternative, the time line for globalized acceptance of such methods is certainly within the next five years, so hold on to your hats and do not get left behind. It is your choice and a free one."

"Numerous reasons have been offered as to why Microsoft has become fearful of open-source software. The real reason is more basic. It's simple economics. with OSS competition, Microsoft has to deal with a product that it can never undercut on price and can never block from distribution because OSS products are not competing for the preload channel."