Comments on: Intel to stop using open-source license

The chipmaker says it will discontinue an open-source license used to govern some of its software.

This is news?

It's housecleaning. To simplify the open source licensing landscape. Nothing sinister or anti-open-source going on here.

news.com: in my neck of the industry, headline manipulation has a direct effect on the respect you earn.

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Very misleading headline!

The headline does not quite match the facts, and seems to try to create the impression that Intel's action is anti-Open Source, when it is actually quite the reverse - a step toward pruning back the needless proliferation of different Open licenses.

Ugly (FUDing) headline

"Intel to stop using open-source license", hmm, what does this mean? I would think Intel will never again write anything open-source! What is the truth infact? The truth is Intel are going to use BSD (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) License instead of their IOSL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/intel-open-source-license.php), which can be seen only by reading the full article. Who needs more FUD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUD) here and why?