Open Source convention: you have to have a good reason not to open the source
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| The news over the past few years in open source establish it as the natural
| way to release software. If there’s anything else you can do to earn money–
| whether setting up a social environment like Second Life, putting up ads like
| Google, or selling hardware like Intel–you really need to search hard for a
| reason to keep software proprietary. The benefits that free software reaps
| from contributions and community are demonstrated beyond a doubt, and the
| mechanism for releasing software as open source is now familiar.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/open_source_convention_you_hav.html
BMC Software embraces open source
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| Management software giant BMC has flung open its doors to the open source
| community in a calculated move designed to maintain its lead over arch rivals
| HP and IBM.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13779&Itemid=1054
Related (last week):
Fotango COO quits job during keynote speech
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| A splash of drama hit OSCON this morning, as the COO of software maker
| Fotango resigned from the company during his keynote, protesting a decision
| not to open source the Zimki utility computing platform.
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| [...]
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| According to Wardley, a successful, open utility computing layer will depend
| on open standards -- namely the General Public License v3 (GPL), which
| Wardley pointed to again and again.
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| "Open source is not a tactic. It is not a strategy. It is the only practical
| way of competing in this marketplace."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/27/wardley_zimki_fotango/
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