LWN: The Path to Open Source: Venture Capitalism? | Linux Today

LWN: The Path to Open Source: Venture Capitalism?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 5, 1998

LWN’s Liz Coolbaugh discusses the impact of a venture capital
investment in the decision to release the source code for
Principia.

“Digital Creations will use the funding to significantly grow
its consulting business. The company’s powerful Principia web
application platform has been developed over the last two years and
used in high scale, dynamic web sites for business applications.
With this software architecture, Digital Creations brings a
significant advantage in projects focused on time, value, and
certainty of success.”

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Web Webster

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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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