Who Owns Commercial Open Source – and Can Forks Work?

Courtesy 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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