"What gives? Officials at VA Software say they can't release SourceForge Enterprise Edition as an open source program, because, if they did, copycats could create knockoffs of the program, and that would hurt sales."
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This is the latest twist in the evolution of the free and open source (FOSS) movement. What began as a revolution has now become just another marketing slogan. Startups are latching onto the hype around “open source” to gain interest from venture capitalists and earn street credibility with the FOSS community, but then proceed with a business model predicated on making money by selling closed source code.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Has Open Source Become A Marketing Slogan? - Forbes.com:
Mozilla and hypocrisy
Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to Yahoo and making that the default upon ...
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Intrusion Detection with Tripwire : "Do this by adding a comma after the severity= line and putting emailto= on the next line, followed...
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Its crazy that the stats for this blog show that there were about a 100 visitors today. I haven't posted in a long time. Blogger really...