Open Source JavaScript and Big Business
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| First off, it is fairly straightforward that you get good
| publicity by contributing and releasing open source code. PR
| departments will do their magic, and people will say, "There,
| this company gives back to the community." But it is naive to
| think that good publicity is the only reason for open source
| involvement; rather, at some point many web developers will
| be putting their money into more complex, professional-grade
| development platforms (or application servers, or code editors),
| and the contributing companies will be there to provide them,
| complete or ready to be integrated with the popular JavaScript
| frameworks. Thus, participation in open source projects gives
| companies more chances for widespread adoption of their products
| and services. Also, notice that none of the reviewed libraries
| is restricted by a "copyleft" license, and therefore can be
| brought back into the fold of proprietary software, after they
| have been to left to play for a while into the open source
| field. Finally, the companies have probably come to the
| realization that once the genie is out of the bottle and your
| competition is flirting with open source, you have no choice
| but to follow, and give programmers the right to experiment
| with the code.
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http://www.javascriptsearch.com/news/editors/JSBigBusiness.html
Even trickier recursive beryl capture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2PwRebofrA&watch_response
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