Transfer from: The "Business Week" published in CCID NEW Prescribed that open resource software is now difficult, copyright has a conflict, and the pessimistic attitude of most industry people makes Linux's future roads look dark. Open resource motion seems to have become a popular topic in the industry in an instant, and the leader open resource operating system software Linux and open resource web server software Apache has constituted a substantive threat to the software of the software. However, now the open resources of the spring breeze have also encountered their own crises. Its core problem is actually very simple: open resource software exists as a commodity, any user has the right to use it, but the real intellectual property owner of software products does not exist at all, which is undoubtedly a very absurd thing. At the same time, the open resource software should be resolved first in the software world. As an open resource software, Linux is a Finnish student developed on the basis of UNIX operating systems and later be perfect by AT & T. Just in the previous SCO claims that it has UNIX's property rights and indicates that the Linux inherited some of the features in the UNIX operating system is also undergaining, and the matter will be a lawsuit to many companies. As a major advocate of Linux, IBM has also been harassed by SCO, but the end is not because of some reasons. But now another problem is placed on the desktop, a company named OpenSourceriskManagement, a company specializes in open resource prosecution insurance business, and it discovers the code of 283 patents in the test of the Linux operating system in the investigation. Although IBM disclosure indicates that there will be no prosecution of 60 patents in it, many enemies of Linux have not let go of this opportunity, including Microsoft, which has always been delayed to Linux, and it has patented up to 27 items. . According to the past experience, the infringement of these patents will not threaten Linux in the short term. At least the court does not make any ruling on Linux within the short term. However, the negative impact of this patent infringement has made those Linux supporters swallow bitter fruits. The German Munich City has recently stated that the purchase of Linux operating system software will be plans to convert a large-scale government department's office system to the Linux operating system from Microsoft's window operating system. Government Action? Most patented definitions can be helpful through contracts, but it is very difficult to find formal licensing contracts for Linux. Without a separate copyright owner, this embarrassing situation only helps to open the resource R & D laboratory, but the problem is that this organization does not have the right to authorize users. The best solution to the front is to make the main vendors of Linux, such as Redhat (Rhat), and Novell (NOVL), and those who combine the Linux operating system as their strategic steps to raise a fund for patents. Solution of the Right Issues. However, the advocates of those open resources should squat their position, and now the open resource industry is still in the infancy, and the establishment of a complete intellectual property system is a top priority. However, most of the open resource software products are now concentrated in large companies that are eager to sell in hand, such as Linux and Apache. However, some people on the market will regard open resource software as a government political movement rather than considering the perspective of major companies. The Richard, one of the founders, pointed out in a piece of article: "The things produced by the owner of the resource software are not the market truly need, it is the product of politics, and will slowly erode us to survive The market. "This view is not agreed by the IBM leaders. At the same time, GNU General PublicLicLicense (GPL), as a Linux and many open resource software product vendors appeared in front of people. First, any program under GPL must be released in a free form and indicate that any modification of the software product will not affect the power of the file.
