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Badgeware *is* EVIL.

I just have more ideas than time to express them. The purpose of this page was to demonstrate that insisting that someone put *your* name and *your* brand right on the front of 'Open Source' (OpenSourceIsBogus) software is unreasonable and unfair.

If I don't get back to this, maybe somebody can come up with more. For now, below is what you would have to put up as a MINIMUM if somebody were to 'badgeware' all of Sun Solaris. To reduce the burden here, I only say 'Copyright' once in the list and have removed the many years and the many duplications (since more than one body of code was contributed by most of the big players). You would have to provide all of the names below along with their respective logos. There were nearly a thousand names on there. It wouldn't post, so I have chopped down the list. The full licensing text in 12 point font runs to more than one thousand pages and that is without graphics. Notice that even my original thousand name list was still so incomplete it was missing Apache. My name is on that list, as is the name of my company. If I and everyone else required what the badgeware weasels do (I am thinking of OpenBravo? here) then their application would never run. It would spend so much time showing my name and those of others that the user would just shut it down and move on. Why, if they are running on Solaris, do they get to insist that their name go on work supported by *my* work and my name does not? Here is why: My license was reasonable and theirs was not. We can't all take credit every time a program loads and they have decided that somehow they are more deserving of credit than we are. Admittedly, my contribution of code is less than theirs in terms of lines. However, their contribution is vanishingly small compared to the thousands (most not listed even here) who made it possible for someone to see their odious badge. If there were 2,000 contributors to a system running that BadgeWare (there has to be more) and they all contributed the half K or so lines that I did, the whole system would be a million lines. Here is a hint: my contribution is likely much smaller than average, but even so, if that was it, then they still would have taken credit for everything, when they only contributed a small fraction. The real case is much worse. By the way, if you came here and have contributed code to Solaris (or feel free to replace this with Linux -- Solaris was the only one where I could find a large list that included names I recognized), then by all means add your name.

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-- BobTrower

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