Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary

Alex Satrapa wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > Discussion about OpenSource projects moving to support Windows.
> [link]
>
> This article was WOFTAM (Waste of Time And Money).
>
> The article asks if open source projects will be "forced to go
> proprietary" without describing what "proprietary" means. I'm not sure
> the author really understands the software "industry".
>
> One of the telling comments is that the author confuses "published" with
> "open" - Microsoft has indeed "published" the XML schema for it's new
> range of Microsoft Office products, but the patent it has applied for
> implies that the schema is not "open". Software can be "proprietary"
> without being "closed".
>

As is MySQL.  They say you can't produce a non-GPL client that talks to
their server via the protocol.  They say they will enforce this via
patents.

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