At a news conference the other day Scott Handy, SVP of Linux and Open Source said: “We’re using the open-source licensing model but not the development model. We’ve learned we can separate the two”.

I see… so DB2 licensing is open-source. So does Microsoft practice this “innovative adaptation of open-source” by freely distributing Internet Explorer? Way to go Microsoft, you champion of the open source cause. Thank you Bill Gates for the open standards and open source code ensuring security and… wait. I’m not sure this IS open source. I’d call it freeware. Not much buzz around freeware these days. IBM does such great things for the open source community, there’s really no reason to fudge the facts at news conferences. People will stop paying attention when you do worthwhile things. And giving away software isn’t bad PR. Calling it open-source is.

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