Channel Register: There's No Such Thing as an Open Source Business

"A gathering of open source pundits have confirmed that the phrase 'open source' is what you make of it. We can all breath a little easier now.

"The pundits--Tim O'Reilly, Sun Microsystems' Simon Phipps and IBM's Rod Smith--came to this conclusion yesterday at an SD Forum event here. Despite a couple of pleas from the SD Forum crowd, the speakers refused to narrow their definition of open source software or companies. Any vendor that uses Apache, for example, is part of the fabled open source community as they help drive a market for such products, the experts said..."

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