[bobwoodard]

All OS platforms have security risks. Open source is no guarantee of quality.

Very true, but their whole take about how Open Source will hurt the IT industry reminds me of Chicken Little. They spend almost the entire paper on one type of license and brush the prospect of alternative licensing away in a single paragraph. A more proper title would have been: "Opening the Open Source Debate - A Critique of the GPL License"

Here's another take on the paper, which points out some inaccuracies and misunderstandings in the AdTI paper.

[Bush2000]

Very true, but their whole take about how Open Source will hurt the IT industry reminds me of Chicken Little. They spend almost the entire paper on one type of license and brush the prospect of alternative licensing away in a single paragraph. A more proper title would have been:

True, but as cited by the article, the GPL constitutes the vast majority of open source licenses. It therefore makes sense to focus more heavily on the licenses that are most pertinent to open source. By the way, I do agree the truly open licenses like those of BSD are the way to go, not viral IP licenses like GPL.