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What Should Be Proprietary in Open Source?

Nov 26, 2007, 03:00 (0 Talkback[s])
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"Marc Fleury answers the question.

"Your good name. Trademark it. Protect your Web site registration. You can't protect your code, but if someone wants to fork it they can do it under another name.

"Notice what's missing? Distribution. Control of your channel is crucial to the success of a proprietary business, yet Fleury doesn't mention it..."

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