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Re: [News] Free Software Projects Lured in by Their Commercial Value

  • Subject: Re: [News] Free Software Projects Lured in by Their Commercial Value
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:29:50 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> This is an odd view that uses a few examples that support an
> hypothesis:
> 
> Information Security Magazine
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Popular open source security products are being commercialized,
> | changing the way customers and vendors view "the community."
> `----
> 
> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,296894,sid14_gci1274461,00.html

Techtarget have some interesting ads:

http://media.slated.org/albums/userpics/techtarget-4dv3rt.png

Spam aside for one moment, the phenomenon of FLOSS being commercialised
is not new, neither is the phenomenon of commercial software being Open
Sourced. At the end of the day, the copyright /owners/ can do what they
like, but of course the GPL ensures that so can the users, via forking,
if necessary.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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