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Hey FOSS Project, What’s Your Pedigree?

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Sam Varghese
Jun 22, 2008

“Organic open source. Non-organic open source. Genetically
modified free software. None of these are phrases that are in
common usage but exploring what they mean is an interesting
exercise.

“MySQL’s Brian Aker used the first two terms when responding to
a post by Linux kernel guru Ted T’so about what Sun was trying to
do with its OpenSolaris project. I made up the third one myself!
And whatever follows is my take on these terms…”

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