[svlug] Avoiding Windows cooties

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Don Marti (dmarti at zgp.org):

> Since this is for a web designer, disk is cheap,
> and web designers seem to often want to roll back to
> an earlier version of a page, why not just go whole
> hog and put in some kind of version control system?
> Subversion?  Alfresco?

Just in case people aren't aware:  Many people believe Alfresco's
published claims of being open source (http://www.alfresco.com/).
Unfortunately, the claim is deceptive:  Their code is under a
(proprietary) licence that is "based on the Mozilla Public License
(MPL)", i.e., MPL 1.1 with an addendum section designed, in my opinion,
to impair third-party commercial use and motivate such users to purchase
separate commercial licences (which option they talk about here:
http://dev.alfresco.com/legal/licensing/ ).

There are about 20 such firms, and lately I've been writing about them
and the challenge they pose to genuine open source:

http://linuxgazette.net/134/moen.html
http://linuxgazette.net/135/misc/lg/talkback_134_moen_html.html

Also possibly relevant:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/03/1737253