Comments on: Open Source License: welcome SaaS, good-bye Free Software! http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/07/13/open-source-license-welcome-saas-good-bye-free-software/ “equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism” Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:38:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/07/13/open-source-license-welcome-saas-good-bye-free-software/comment-page-1/#comment-60897 Roberto Galoppini Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:55:18 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/07/13/open-source-license-welcome-saas-good-bye-free-software/#comment-60897 Ciao Savio, my point of view comes from my past experience with the FSF community. I have been spending years as FSFE's friend, and I firmly believe that GPLv3 in 2002 had much more chances to get closer to the Affero. Don't get me wrong, I think that Richard is a GREAT man, but he did a big mistake, indeed. Enterprises, or many of them, do love GPLv2 and now GPLv3. Even some OSS proponents as you pointed it out: OS business models based on SaaS make a lot of sense, as far as we can see. Right?! ;-) Ciao Savio,

my point of view comes from my past experience with the FSF community. I have been spending years as FSFE’s friend, and I firmly believe that GPLv3 in 2002 had much more chances to get closer to the Affero. Don’t get me wrong, I think that Richard is a GREAT man, but he did a big mistake, indeed.

Enterprises, or many of them, do love GPLv2 and now GPLv3. Even some OSS proponents as you pointed it out: OS business models based on SaaS make a lot of sense, as far as we can see. Right?! ;-)

]]> By: Savio Rodrigues http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/07/13/open-source-license-welcome-saas-good-bye-free-software/comment-page-1/#comment-60471 Savio Rodrigues Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:31:18 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/07/13/open-source-license-welcome-saas-good-bye-free-software/#comment-60471 Hey Roberto, I can totally understand your point of view. I'd suggest that any license that attempts to close the SaaS Loophole is going to have an uphill battle. There's too much code under GPLv2 (and maybe GPLv3 in the future) in use at large SaaS vendors and they're not going to stand by while the loophole closes. *Or*, if they don't get in the way of such a license, then these vendors will want the option of paying for the privilege of keeping their modifications private. Sun allows customers to do so with their openJDK project which is under GPLv2. This seems to be the only alternative that large SaaS vendors will accept...at least in my view. I <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/07/saas_vs_oss_use.html" rel="nofollow">ask again</a>, why do OSS proponents love SaaS? ;-) Hey Roberto, I can totally understand your point of view.

I’d suggest that any license that attempts to close the SaaS Loophole is going to have an uphill battle. There’s too much code under GPLv2 (and maybe GPLv3 in the future) in use at large SaaS vendors and they’re not going to stand by while the loophole closes. *Or*, if they don’t get in the way of such a license, then these vendors will want the option of paying for the privilege of keeping their modifications private. Sun allows customers to do so with their openJDK project which is under GPLv2. This seems to be the only alternative that large SaaS vendors will accept…at least in my view.

I ask again, why do OSS proponents love SaaS? ;-)

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