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Why Open Source Companies Need to Give Up Control
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| The open source *community*, by contrast, is not
| in it for the money, but the software â that's how
| it's defined: by its interest and involvement in a
| piece of code. When that code is sold, the
| community gains nothing, and might even suffer if
| the new owner is buying an open software project
| for the wrong reasons â to remove a threat to its
| own closed-source offerings, for example.
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| [...]
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| That's handy for open source companies, but breaks
| the underlying contract of mutual benefit with
| companies and people that contribute code. And
| without the reciprocity, I think the urge to
| contribute is bound to diminish, because there is
| likely to be an underlying feeling that external
| contributors are being unfairly exploited â not
| least when a company decides to âsell outâ.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2594&blogid=14
Recent:
Open sourcers strike back at Google cease-and-desist
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| Three days after Google told an independent
| developer to stop bundling proprietary applications
| with his alternative Android operating system, fans
| of the popular package have shot back with plans to
| work around the move.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/28/google_android_developers_reaction/
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