-=PCTechTalk=- Interesting article
- From: "Bashful Bob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:32:04 -0500
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39194786,00.htm
IT giants accused of exploiting open source
By Ingrid Marson, Special to ZDNet
01 June 2005
Major companies that sell open source software have been accused by a top EU
official of treating open source developers as mere subcontractors.
A senior figure at the European Commission launched an outspoken attack on
several major American IT firms on Monday, accusing them of exerting too much
influence on the progress of the open source community.
Jesús Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information
Society and Media Directorate General, said that big companies such as IBM, HP
and Sun are just using the open source community as subcontractors rather than
encouraging the community to develop independent commercial products.
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