jbrase - Slashdot User

Comment The license probably is there (Score 1) 251

by jbrase on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:50AM (#55709635) Attached to: Intel's ME May Be Massively Infringing on Minix3's Free Software License

I'm willing to bet that if you can actually get a shell into the management engine Minix instance, and browse to /usr/share/doc or wherever, the license probably actually is in fact there, so the letter of the license is almost certainly fulfilled (because the license is going to be in the upstream distribution of Minix, and it would be extra work *and* would invite legal trouble for Intel to remove it, so why bother?), even if the spirit is violated.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What would you pay to see open sourced? 1

Submitted by jbrase on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:49AM

jbrase writes: A couple weeks back, I noticed this story about a petition to Adobe to release Flash as open-source. This dovetails neatly with something that I have been thinking about recently:

It is in the interest of the open-source community to make open-source development as profitable as possible. One potential means of making money from open source is crowdfunding. However, heretofore proprietary vendors are not likely to be enthusastic about using their flagship product to try out a relatively untested business model.

Crowdfunding the open source release of legacy technologies of historical significance could provide a low-risk way for vendors to experiment with making money by crowdfunding: The product has already turned them a profit.

With that, I'd like to ask Slashdot readers, what would you pay to see open sourced?

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