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Dual of denial â on the success and failure of dual licensing
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| A good example of this is OpenNMS Group.
| The acquisition of copyright to the 1.0
| code base in 2009 out the company in the
| position of being able to changing its
| licensing strategy beyong a pure open
| source approach. While the company is
| unlikely to go open core (Tarus Balog
| prefers to call it âfauxpen sourceâ,
| OpenNMS has delivered Powered by OpenNMS â
| a commercial license program:
|
| âWhile the OpenNMS Group encourages the
| adoption of open source software, some
| organizations, due to trade secrets,
| patents or other proprietary reasons, may
| not be able to use 100% open source
| software in their environment. The
| âPowered by OpenNMSâ program allows them
| to purchase the right to use OpenNMS under
| a more traditional license.â
|
| That in itself does not guarantee the
| continued use of dual licensing. But it
| does demonstrate. along with the comments
| of Richard Stallman, that dual licensing
| remains a valid strategy for generating
| revenue from open source software that is
| compatible with the principles of free and
| open source software.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/03/01/dual-of-denial-on-the-success-and-failure-of-dual-licensing/
OpenStreetMap updates its maps of Chile
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| OSM also mapped large volumes of data
| during the recent Haitian earthquake.
| Before the disaster, the OSM maps had been
| sketchy even in the capital Port-au-
| Prince. In Chile, thanks to an active
| local OSM community, the OSM maps are
| already pretty comprehensive, but, in the
| rural areas, with the exception of major
| roads, much remains to be mapped.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-updates-its-maps-of-Chile-942736.html
Recent:
11 open source business models
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| Telling people to pay you and go away worked
| for an amazingly long time. It sounds like it
| shouldnât. It sounds a bit like theft. But
| software is a miracle, and for decades EULA
| Ware was the only model there was.
|
| Open source companies, on the other hand, they
| have to use their imagination.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5371
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