I don’t plan on being abusive towards Microsoft about its decision to open up the source of some .NET Framework libraries, for viewing purposes only(!), but I would instead like to clarify a statement I made in my last post about open source. To quote myself:

Is the source open? If it’s not, it’s not open […]

I’ve been reading through the many essays of Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, a compilation of writings from different sources dealing with subjects pertinent to the Open Source Initiative. Though I haven’t read them all yet, I have read Appendix A, which is an email thread on the comp.os.minix newsgroup from early […]

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software is the biography of Richard Stallman, as told by Sam Williams. The book is very interesting portrayal of Stallman, especially — in my own personal opinion — of his later years during the birth of Linux and pending failure of the GNU HURD project. I […]