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"Cisco has also seen those kinds of bad contracts as well as 'systemic open-source problems' at companies it was interested in buying, Adams said. Cisco will ha
by devmonk 16y ago
"Cisco has also seen those kinds of bad contracts as well as 'systemic open-source problems' at companies it was interested in buying, Adams said. Cisco will have to consider how much it will cost it to get out of those contracts or correct those issues, and whether that cost makes the acquisition worth it."
Systemic open-source problems?? Correct "those" issues???
While I understand to some extent the issues surrounding acquisitions of companies with products using GNU GPL'd code (just as an example), referring to open-source code as an "issue" or a "problem" is just asking for trouble.
- foobarbazetc 16y agoCisco isn't exactly all about open source, so you know, calling it an issue probably makes sense for them. :)
- meta 16y agoI would guess the 'systemic problems' are from companies not following the license rules of many OSS projects and treating it as FREE software rather than free but with license restrictions software. Specifically their experience with their Linksys issues (http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Cisco-settles-with-FSF-on-GPL-violations/ http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Cisco-settles-with-F...)