We're not thieves. We just can't read contracts (McAfee and Open Source)

  2008-01-14 17:30:02
I have borrowed a headline from an earlier posting by Shane Schick to discuss something I saw this week. McAfee filed a report last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission that made a few statements about risks associated with their use of some Open Source software. These statements received quite a bit of media attention. 
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