Re: lug-bg: Bitkata mai zapochva....

[koko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nikolay Yourgandzhiev)]

Qwno sa se zarazili ot balgarskite politici :-)
I te pochwat da warshat gluposti. Iskat da odrejat zdrawata glawa za da
spasqt bolnata.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivaylo Toshev" <ivo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lug-bg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: lug-bg: Bitkata mai zapochva....

> Å , ìàé âå÷å íàñòàíà âðåìå ðàçäåëíî.....
> È âñåêè òðÿáâà äà èçáåðå ñòðàíà, ìäàààà.
> Microsoft ÿâíî çàïî÷âàò áèòêàòà ñðåùó Îòâîðåíèÿ êîä è ïî ñïåöèàëíî ñðåùó
GPL.
> Âèæòå ñòàòèÿòà ïî-äîëó, èçëÿçëà â÷åðà â "New York Times".
> Íà ïðúâ ïîãëåä âåäíàãà ñòàâà ÿñíî, ÷å ìàé Microsoft èñêàò äà ïðèëàïàò
ðåøåíèÿ
> íàïðàâåíè ïîä GPL è äà ãè ïðîäàâàò êàòî Windows, êàêâà ìèñëèòå ÷å èíà÷å áè
> ìîãëà äà áúäå ïðè÷èíàòà çà àòàêàòà èì ñðåùó GPL ? Ìîðàëíè èëè ïàòðèîòè÷÷íè
> ñúîáðàæåíèÿ? ×å Microsoft, ñà òîëêîâà çàãðèæåíè, ÷å âèäèòå ëè, GPL ïðå÷åë
íà
> ðàçâèòèåòî íà òåõíîëîãèèòå è íà ðàçâèòèåòî íà ñîôòóåðíèòå êîìïàíèè, ÷å
äàæå
> çàáåëåæåòå, áèë ïàãóáåí çà äúðæàâèòå, êîèòî ãî òîëåðèðàëè ?!
> Âÿðâàòå ëè íà òîâàà ?! Âÿðâàòå ëè, ÷å Microsoft ñà çàãðèæåíè çà
ñïîìåíàòîòî
> ãîðå ?! Àç ÍÅ!
>
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> May 3, 2001
>
>
>
> Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code
>
> By JOHN MARKOFF
>
>
> AN FRANCISCO, May 2 ? Microsoft is preparing a broad campaign countering
the
> movement to give away and share software code, arguing that it potentially
> undermines the intellectual property of countries and companies. At the
same
> time, the company is acknowledging that it is feeling pressure from the
> freely shared alternatives to its commercial software.
>
>  In a speech defending Microsoft's business model, to be given on Thursday
at
> the Stern School of Business at New York University, Craig Mundie, a
senior
> vice president at Microsoft and one of its software strategists, will
argue
> that the company already follows the best attributes of the open-source
model
> by sharing the original programmer's instructions, or source code, more
> widely than is generally realized.
>
>  The speech is part of an effort by Microsoft to raise questions about the
> limits of innovation inherent in the open-source approach and to suggest
that
> companies adopting the approach are putting their intellectual property at
> risk.
>
>  Advocates of the open-source movement say that making the code available
> permits other developers to tinker with it, find problems and improve the
> software. Although the movement has not yet had a significant effect on
sales
> of Microsoft's Office and Windows products in the personal computer
market,
> the company wants to enter the corporate software market, where open
source
> has gained ground.
>
>  In his speech, Mr. Mundie will argue that one aspect of the open-source
> model, known as the General Public License, or G.P.L., is a potential trap
> that undercuts the commercial software business and mirrors some of the
worst
> practices of dot- com businesses, in which goods were given away in an
effort
> to attract visitors to Web sites. G.P.L. requires that any software using
> source code already covered by the licensing agreement must become
available
> for free distribution.
>
>  "This viral aspect of the G.P.L. poses a threat to the intellectual
property
> of any organization making use of it," Mr. Mundie said in a telephone
> interview this week.
>
> I.B.M. in particular has been heavily marketing the free Linux operating
> system.
>
>  Mr. Mundie does not identify I.B.M. by name in his speech, which was
> provided beforehand, but he says that large companies are naïve in
adopting
> the open-source model.
>
>  "I would challenge you," he said, "to find a company who is a large
> established enterprise, who at the end of the day would throw all of its
> intellectual property into the open- source category."
>
>  An I.B.M. executive said that his company had considered the issues
> surrounding the protection of intellectual property and had decided that
it
> was possible to follow both a proprietary and a shared business model,
even
> one based on the G.P.L.
>
>  The executive, Irving Wladawsky- Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
"If
> we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you know, we
have
> a lot of lawyers."
>
>  In February, Jim Allchin, a software designer at Microsoft, became a
> lightning rod for industry criticism when he said in an interview with
> Bloomberg News that freely distributed software code could stifle
innovation
> and that legislators should be aware of the threat.
>
>  Mr. Mundie said he would elaborate on Mr. Allchin's comments while also
> trying to demonstrate that Microsoft already practices many of what he
called
> the best aspects of the open-source model.
>
>  "We have been going around the industry talking to people," Mr. Mundie
said,
> "and have been startled to find that people aren't very sophisticated
about
> the implications of what open source means." He acknowledged that the
> open-source movement was making inroads.
>
>  "The news here is that Microsoft is engaging in a serious way in this
> discussion," he said. "The open- source movement has continued to gather
> momentum in a P.R. sense and a product sense."
>
>  He said Microsoft was particularly concerned about the inroads that the
> open-source idea was making in other countries.
>
>  "It's happening very, very broadly in a way that is troubling to us," he
> said. "I could highlight a dozen countries around the world who have
> open-source initiatives."
>
>  Mr. Mundie said that in his speech, he would break the open-source
strategy
> into five categories: community, standards, business model, investment and
> licensing model. Microsoft, he said, in support of the community ideal,
> already has what he called a shared-source philosophy, which makes its
source
> code available to hardware makers, software developers, scientists,
> researchers and government agencies.
>
>  Microsoft would expand its sharing initiatives, he said. But he added
that
> the company's proprietary business model was a more effective way to
support
> industry standards than the open-source approach, which he said could lead
to
> a "forking" of the software base resulting in the development of multiple
> incompatible versions of standard programs.
>
>  He cited the history of Unix, which has been replete with incompatible
> versions. Although he acknowledged that the open-source approach had
created
> new technologies, he said that business models using the open- source
> community were suspect.
>
>  "It is innovation that really drives growth," Mr. Mundie said, arguing
that
> without the sustained investment made possible by commercial software,
real
> innovation would not be possible.
>
>  He reserved his harshest criticism in the text of his speech for the
G.P.L.,
> a software licensing model defined by programmer Richard M. Stallman in
1984.
>
>  "This is not understood by many sophisticated people," Mr. Mundie said.
"The
> goal of the G.P.L. is sweeping up all of the intellectual property that
has
> been contributed. That creates many problems downstream, many of which
> haven't come home to roost yet."
>
>  Mr. Stallman has made a distinction between the open-source software
> movement and the G.P.L., which he designed as part of the free software
> movement that he led.
>
>  In a response to Microsoft's Mr. Allchin in February, Mr. Stallman
> wrote:"The free software movement was founded in 1984, but its inspiration
> comes from the ideals of 1776: freedom, community and voluntary
cooperation.
> This is what leads to free enterprise, to free speech, and to free
software."
>
>  Today a proponent of the open- source software movement said he thought
that
> Microsoft was taking a clever approach in its challenge.
>
>  "It's very clever of them," said Eric Raymond, president of the Open
Source
> Initiative. "Instead of attacking the entire open-source movement they've
> singled out the one license that is in a sense politically controversial."
>
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