今天在LinuxToday看到一篇批评中国OpenSource开发人员的文章,并且矛头直指国内的几个大的Linux发布商,例如红旗,蓝点和Turbo Linux中国分公司!
下面是批评者(RedHat副总裁兼常务董事Mark White)的原话:
"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"
(中国很早就有把美国或欧洲开发出来的软件,加了个汉化外壳后就声称是自己的技术,并且开始加以控制的历史,现在这种做法也应用到OpenSource中,这种做法是违背OpenSource的原则同时也在破坏OpenSource的商业市场,我们观察的那些中国公司,例如红旗,蓝点,和TurboLinux中国公司,对获取OpenSource表现出很大的热情,但对于开放自己经过修改后的源码就显得非常的不情愿!)
Mark White还拿RedHat公司的一些做法来说明一个真正的Linux发布商应该怎么才能真正地在OpenSource社区中获取信誉和在商业上获取成功,例如最近进行的对在Intels IA-64上的群集软件的开发! 指明要想成功,是需要根据客户的需求来为客户服务,并且开发出来的东西,控制权应该在客户手中,而不是自己手中!
Mark White尖锐地指出如果中国公司继续这种行为的话,将来对这些Linux版本的市场是非常不利的,因为经过修改的内核或者扩充软件,如果不是和标准一致或没有公开的话,将来吃亏的还是自己!
但红旗的股东之一Albert Chung不同意这样的看法,他说其实红旗已经是开放源码,但对于某些软件没有开放是可以接受的,而且这在世界上也很流行,并不是只有中国一个!
详细的介绍请看下面地址:
http://biz.yahoo.com/st/010703/27670.html
摘自：http://www.linuxbyte.net