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:ZDNet: Who Decides What is Open Source?
ZDNet: Who Decides What is Open Source?
Mar 3, 2007, 05 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6762 reads)

(Other stories by Dana Blankenhorn)

"If the code you build from is not GPL it's easy to build a proprietary company on an open source base. PostgreSQL, for instance, uses the BSD license. Thus EnterpriseDB can build proprietary extensions and offer them to the market.

"Are they an open source company? No, they have no community, and don't want one. Should they be allowed entry into an 'open source' conference...?"

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Linux Magazine: Choice or Chaos? The High Cost of Linux Fragmentation(Mar 02, 2007)
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O'Reilly Radar: Is "Open Source" Now Completely Meaningless?(Feb 27, 2007)


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Such BS, all based on EnterpriseDB ?, (o ...   Decided !!!   
GH
Mar 3, 2007, 19:52:23
 
ZDNet: Who Decides What is Open Source?M ...   Who decides...   
Joe User
Mar 3, 2007, 22:01:52
 
Dana is at it again. He makes some of th ...   OH my..   
Mike R.
Mar 4, 2007, 10:55:03
 
> What I find truly amazing is that he a ...   Re: OH my..   
Frank Earl (aka Svartalf)
Mar 4, 2007, 18:51:43
 
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