proprietary software

TechWorld: "Women's participation in open source development is an order of magnitude worse than in the proprietary software world."

Unixmen: "OIN or the Open Invention Network is an industry-supporting independent group consisting of Linux users in a linux-logoroyalty-free environment and be protected from lawsuits for license infringement by proprietary software owners."

The Ubuntu Technical Board has

OStatic: "In the ongoing debate between open source purists and people who appreciate and defend proprietary software, extremists will always have their voices, but many people in the open source community are waking up to the fact that proprietary platforms and applications can co-exist peacefully with open source ones."

If something doesn't work, try something else. That's a lesson that the FSF needs to embrace, if it wants to succeed with a mainstream audience.

Being the Party of Gno, and trying to tell users to just avoid Windows, Cloud Computing, iPads, and proprietary software isn't cutting it.

It's time to come up with credible alternatives or be satisfied with remaining irrelevant to the majority of users.

Neelie Kroes is no lightweight when it comes to

Top Tech News: "The European Union's top Internet official took aim at Microsoft, warning that governments can accidentally lock themselves into one company's software for decades by setting it as a standard for their technology systems."

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Assorted new reports about how Microsoft abuses “open source” to gain control of it, change its direction and goals, or even to misuse the label to promote proprietary software that harms standards and promotes patenting of software"

Libervis: "I used to be what is sometimes called a "Free Software purist". "Free" here refers to "free as in freedom" according to Richard Stallman's Free Software Philosophy.

As such I was opposed to all proprietary software licensing."

Canonical is looking into selling proprietary software like Adobe's Photoshop and Apple's iTunes within its distribution, Ubuntu.

This would undoubtedly be helpful for certain end users wanting to switch to Linux, but is it good for free software in the long run?