software movement

Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive

Linux Today  Mon, 11/30/2009 - 09:04

New York Times: "In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program's creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared."


 

Who Owns Commercial Open Source – and Can Forks Work?

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Thu, 04/23/2009 - 05:27

Three years ago, Tom Foremski wrote an interesting piece called “Adapt or die--the choice facing the open source movement“, which began:

Can Larry Ellison be stopped?

By which I mean could Oracle shut down the fledgling open-source software movement through a series of acquisitions??

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