今天在LinuxToday看到一篇批評中國OpenSource開發人員的文章,並且矛頭直指國內的幾個大的Linux發布商,例如紅旗,藍點和Turbo Linux中國分公司!
下面是批評者(RedHat副總裁兼常務董事Mark White)的原話:
"China has a history of being able to take U.S.- or European-developed software or technology products and then try and take control of [them] by wrapping a Chinese applications layer around it and saying it is now their technology," White said. He added that this defeats the purpose of open source and does nothing to encourage Linux business.
"The challenge that weve seen with companies like Redflag Software, Bluepoint, and to a lesser extent TurboLinux, particularly in the [China], is that theyve been very welcoming to take this [open] source code and do something with it, but are less welcoming to distribute their changes"
(中國很早就有把美國或歐洲開發出來的軟件,加了個漢化外殼後就聲稱是自己的技術,並且開始加以控制的歷史,現在這種做法也應用到OpenSource中,這種做法是違背OpenSource的原則同時也在破壞OpenSource的商業市場,我們觀察的那些中國公司,例如紅旗,藍點,和TurboLinux中國公司,對獲取OpenSource表現出很大的熱情,但對於開放自己經過修改後的源碼就顯得非常的不情願!)
Mark White還拿RedHat公司的一些做法來說明一個真正的Linux發布商應該怎麼才能真正地在OpenSource社區中獲取信譽和在商業上獲取成功,例如最近進行的對在Intels IA-64上的群集軟件的開發! 指明要想成功,是需要根據客戶的需求來為客戶服務,並且開發出來的東西,控制權應該在客戶手中,而不是自己手中!
Mark White尖銳地指出如果中國公司繼續這種行為的話,將來對這些Linux版本的市場是非常不利的,因為經過修改的內核或者擴充軟件,如果不是和標准一致或沒有公開的話,將來吃虧的還是自己!
但紅旗的股東之一Albert Chung不同意這樣的看法,他說其實紅旗已經是開放源碼,但對於某些軟件沒有開放是可以接受的,而且這在世界上也很流行,並不是只有中國一個!
詳細的介紹請看下面地址:
http://biz.yahoo.com/st/010703/27670.html
摘自：http://www.linuxbyte.net