Linux Foundation chief: 'You are an idiot' if you don't give back to open source

Posted by Julie188 on Aug 30, 2011 11:57 PM EDT
Network World
Mail this story
Print this story

Taking without contributing back to the upstream project defeats the benefit of open source and sooner or later, all open source users realize this, contends Jim Zemlin. So the time for cajoling those users -- even commercial projects like Ubuntu leader Canonical -- into participating is over. Contributing is "not the right thing to do because of some moral issue or because we say you should do it. It's because you are an idiot if you don't," he says.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Interview; Groups: Community, Linux, Ubuntu

« Return to the newswire homepage

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
I don't understand skelband 20 1,534 Aug 31, 2011 11:03 PM

You cannot post until you login.