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Current Newswire: Open Source Gets Political Open source and the Morevna project Android market going down the drain? All Done With Ubuntu Google Offers Migration Tool for Microsoft Exchange Data OpenOffice.org Project of the Month: the Irish community Ten Years of OpenOffice.org Loading ... Loading ... Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained Mailing Lists Are Parties. Or They Should Be. Project: Building An All-Text Linux Workstation HPC Linux Administrator (IL) Next Step Systems US-IL-Chicago Post A Job | Post A Resume IT-Analysis: Open Source: Upsizing is Unpleasant for Some Sep 4, 2005, 13 :00 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (4413 reads) (Other stories by Bob McDowall) "I had the joy in recent overseas travels to encounter a group who had been attending a Linux Open Source convention. They turned out to be veterans and pioneers of the Open Source movement, but they were not enamoured about the way Open Source was commercially maturing--making this an unhappy group of travellers! Like the wedding guest in 'The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner' I listened to their tale of woe and found that some of their less emotional observations were of interest..." Complete Story Related Stories: eWeek: Commercializing Open-Source Stirs Debate(Aug 06, 2005) Community: Where Have All the HOWTOs Gone?(Nov 06, 2004) Illuminata: Open Source Incivility(Apr 26, 2004) PCWorld: Is Linux Selling Out?(Aug 16, 2002) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Interesting article    Rainer Weikusat Sep 4, 2005, 14:09:57     What veterans? What pioneers?    Ursus Orribilus Sep 4, 2005, 15:23:11     Clueless Pundit Alert!!!    Joe User Sep 4, 2005, 16:08:00     flawed logic    Steve Stites Sep 4, 2005, 16:39:17     Re: What veterans? What pioneers?    Bob Robertson Sep 4, 2005, 16:58:07     Wishfull thinking    Jimmy the Geek Sep 4, 2005, 19:35:30     really?    daniel Sep 5, 2005, 04:10:41     don't worry guys... they're just junk...    daniel Sep 5, 2005, 04:18:41     Don't be discouraged by ...    GreyGeek Sep 5, 2005, 13:59:10     Story has it backwards    Cole Thompson Sep 5, 2005, 15:13:53     Re: Don't be discouraged by ...    jp Sep 6, 2005, 02:50:12     Re: Wishfull thinking    jp Sep 6, 2005, 03:09:50     Re: don't worry guys... they're just junk.    Rainer Weikusat Sep 6, 2005, 10:01:26     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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