FOOD FOR THOUGHT The Open Source Conflict

[wardmundy]

Today's Must Read from Dr. Dobb's:

The Conflict at the Heart of Open Source


The Sad Truth:

The [OpenSSL] team chose an Apache/BSD-style license. This successfully built community but, it turns out, communities simply do not pay for their tools. Even well-heeled users, such as Cisco and Google, don't pay. In the OSS community, this is viewed as no accident

 

[tycho]

Wow. Dr. Dobbs. Blast from the Past. I've clearly been away from hacking for a very long time. Haven't seen a reference to Dr. Dobbs Journal or even thought of it in a very long time, but of course there it was, all along...

 

[visionlogic]

So no voluntary support is "Policy" at Google. Completely, and dishearteningly, believable. Do no evil - to the bottom line.