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InfoWorld: Mudblood Open Source

Written By
MA
Matt Asay
Feb 2, 2006

“I talked with a prominent open source developer–Gianugo
Rabellino of Apache/Cocoon fame–today, getting his feedback on the
business models of Red Hat, Alfresco, MySQL, SugarCRM, JBoss, and
others. He made it clear that the open source development community
(if it, in fact, exists) strongly prefers pureplay open source
projects, rather than ‘mudblood’ open source companies.

“No surprises there…”


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Matt Asay

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