Gartner Joins Open Source Squabble | Linux Today

Gartner Joins Open Source Squabble

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 18, 2007

“Gartner today joined squabbling by vendors over the meaning,
purpose and spirit of open source by declaring that users demand
the right to modify and redistribute software code and the
resulting products.

“In a recent research note, Gartner analysts Brian Prentice and
Mark Driver said that some members of the open source software
community were concerned about the role that vendors play in
supplying and supporting the software…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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