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NewsForge: OpenMFG Sidles Up to the GPL with OpenRPT

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 10, 2007

“OpenMFG, founded in 2001, provides enterprise resource planning
software to small and mid-sized manufacturing companies. It’s one
of those businesses whose proprietary product is ‘built on’ open
source. But OpenMFG is beginning to put its money where its mouth
is: recently the company released one of its modules, OpenRPT,
under the GPL.

“Back in 2001, some people in the FLOSS community were skeptical
about how committed to the open source way companies like OpenMFG
were…”

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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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