Tim O’Reilly: Software licenses don’t work
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PeopleSoft may be spending its nights tossing and turning about a hostile takeover by Oracle, but maybe Oracle should be the one losing sleep. At least that’s what O’Reilly & Associates Chief Executive Officer Tim O’Reilly believes.
EBay will someday buy Oracle, open source licenses don’t work, and the software market is about to change forever. These are three of the predictions that O’Reilly, a well-known publisher of technical books and an open source advocate, had to offer in an interview conducted the week before his company’s annual Open Source Convention. The conference, which attracts a who’s who of the open source community, will be held in Portland, Oregon, next week.
