“I’ve thus far made no mention of OpenDS and the wildfire
reporting that has ensued, but there was one aspect of this
situation I commented on to Stephen O’Grady and others on #redmonk
when it came out that bugged me. It was a question: ‘how did it
ever get to this point?’. How does a company–a profit seeking
company, not a wild tongued developer–even get into an OpenDS
situation? I believe the answer is that many people have wrongly
assumed that the label ‘open source’ indicates a project is
disentangled from corporate affairs. Let me explain…”
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