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"An interesting article about the shift in open source from idealistic to pragmatic. The author compares the relative obscurity of FOSS software such as MediaGoblin and KDE's MakePlayLive co-op to commercial software. The article then goes on to discuss the split between FOSS's goal to provide freedom to users and to provide high-quality software. Also mentioned is the split between commercial and non-commercial FOSS."
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(Score: 1) by bugamn on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:17PM
This is just a small point in your commentary, but are you sure that your textbook got their images from Wikipedia and not the reverse? Or maybe both got it from a common source?
Also, what kind of textbook is that that doesn't give a source for its images?
(Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:41PM
Usually the only time you see the source cited is because it was required by copyright.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 23 2014, @10:01PM
Required or not, if my book stole the image without citing it this still helps demonstrate my point, that it is IP defenders that are the thieves and not the other way around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:52PM
My book doesn't cite any sources and it is cropped in my book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Gram_stain_ 01.jpg [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by cubancigar11 on Monday March 24 2014, @02:35AM
If you want to claim a copyright you should start being non-anonymous and engage on the same talk page.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @03:39AM
It's not my copyright, it's Wikipedias. and it was stolen by my book. and I don't have to be non-anonymous to call the textbook companies out on it. They stole it, IP extremist hypocrite thieves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @03:42AM
Not everyone has the resources of a big corporation to enforce IP. It's mostly the big corporations that have these sorts of resources to go after the little guy but whoever put that image up on Wikipedia is far less likely to have the resources to go after the IP extremist thieves that steal their work without attribution. Yet the big corporations wrongfully accuse everyone else of 'stealing'. Only when others do it I suppose. The hypocrites.