Zawodny On Open Source Citizenship
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| Claiming that we can't be better open source citizens because of
| our inability to write good software is, pardon my French, just crap. Being
| good open source citizens means contributing where it makes sense,
| allowing our employees to be a part of the open source world, and
| helping to evangelize the benefits of open source software.
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| I think that if you've spent any time looking at Yahoo or Google's
| involvement, you'd notice that we've been increasingly doing more and
| more to help the open source world.
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http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20060803ZawodnyOnOpenSourceCitizenship.html
Context also in:
Yahoo! sees limits to open source goodness
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161692/yahoo-sees-limits-open-source
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| He accused Yahoo! and Google of being bad open source citizens because
| they refrain from opening the source code of all their internally
| developed applications. This is in part the result of a lack of
| modularity in their software, which makes it easier for multipled
| evelopers to work on a single application.
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| "It is disappointing that they are such heavy users of open source,
| and have architected themselves into a corner that makes giving
| back impossible or problematic," Asay concluded.
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