[Am-info] A Web services/open source conundrum

[Fred A. Miller]

"Christian Gross, a software engineering consultant and author, gave a 
talk at the recent Linux Enterprise Forum in Boston about how Web 
services could be viewed as " the killer app " for open source. But in 
his session, he also outlined a possible future for the dubious use of 
open source software that may raise a few eyebrows among the free 
software crowd.

Gross discussed some free software packages that are available to 
develop and support Web services, such as Apache Axis, and Open SOAP 
(Simple Object Application Protocol) as alternative technologies to 
Microsoft’s .Net and Sun’s Open Network Environment (ONE) Web services 
platforms.

The talk took an interesting turn when Gross began discussing how 
businesses and software developers could take advantage of Web services 
along with a loophole in the GNU Public License (GPL)."

<http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=741518>

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Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org