O'Reilly Radar: Is "Open Source" Now Completely Meaningless?
Feb 27, 2007, 02:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Nat Torkington)
"I'm deep into building the OSCON schedule. I've found some very
strange companies claiming to be open source. For example, Vyatta
makes an 'open source router.' Their web site talks big about open
source and community, but it turns out they're not talking about
developers. In fact, the only download I could find was a live .iso
of their 'community edition.' No CVS, no subversion, no trac. It
appears that their business model is to charge for the updates
you'd get for free if there was CVS. They might give away the
source on the .iso (I haven't checked) but without the live source
tree exposed it seems quite hollow. (update: Vyatta source is in
git, though in my defense you can't find this out from their
downloads page only the wiki. Their entire product is GPL, so
they're as open source as they come. I apologize for
misfiring...)"
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