Articles tagged ‘bsd’

Like it or not open source license complexity will not disappear. OSS must develop survival strategies to navigate the minefield of new IP issues without tripping over itself.

Dr Niklaus Wirth’s pioneering work on languages like Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon are shining examples of simplicity and elegance. In a recent lecture in California, this path-breaker voiced his disapproval for the unwieldy nature of today’s programming languages and called for a return to the basics.

Robert Adkins and LFY’s associate editor talked with Rasmus Lerdorf over breakfast while attending Linux Bangalore 2003. Rasmus currently works for Yahoo in Silicon Valley having great fun as their resident PHP expert.

This author writes on the dynamics of the ‘Bazaar’ and the forces and conditions that influence it. The author contends that the Linux ‘Bazaar’ is not simply a loose collection of vendors and other proponents, motivated only by mutual recognition. The ‘Bazaar’ really operates on a larger stage. When forces of the larger stage organize around a dominant restrictive group, a reactionary force is generated in the remaining community. Over time, this reactive force propels various alternatives.