[discuss] Reuters: Novell could be banned from selling Linux:group

Andrew Kohlsmith akohlsmith-clue at benshaw.com
Tue Feb 13 13:15:39 EST 2007


On Tuesday 13 February 2007 1:01 pm, Don Kelly wrote:
> Think of free software distribution as a river (or "stream) flowing
> from a source: the original writer.  All along the stream, there are
> other contributors who might add value to the original work and others
> who are interested in using those improvements (if you're not
> interested those improvements, then the conversation is moot).

Completely sideline thought here, but if there is some way we can work in the 
visual of someone pissing in the river, or dumping waste into the river, we 
might have something we could use to make the license more readily understood 
to people.

-A.


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