“Days after Tripp Lite, a leading manufacturer of power
protection products, announced it had made the source code of its
popular PowerAlert Universal UPS Management Software available to
Linux developers in an open source environment, the Linux community
has responded with overwhelmingly positive approval.“
“Tripp Lite announced in September that it would grant
developers of the Linux operating system access to its software’s
source code. For the first time, a UPS management program was made
available in an open source Linux format. Tripp Lite’s decision
allows Linux developers to modify PowerAlert Software to meet their
specific needs, then share their creations within the Linux
community.”
“The open-source movement has been heralded by some Linux
developers as possibly the most important change in the history of
the computing industry–the time when software went from being the
jealously guarded competitive tool of a chosen few, to a widely
available resource built to benefit everyone. Tripp Lite has set a
precedent for other manufacturers to follow in making its
software’s source code universally available to all
developers.”