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Open Source Convention: You Have to Have a Good Reason Not to Open the Source

“The news over the past few years in open source establish it as
the natural way to release software. If there’s anything else you
can do to earn money–whether setting up a social environment like
Second Life, putting up ads like Google, or selling hardware like
Intel–you really need to search hard for a reason to keep software
proprietary. The benefits that free software reaps from
contributions and community are demonstrated beyond a doubt, and
the mechanism for releasing software as open source is now
familiar.

“Here’s my wrap-up of the Open Source convention. I published an
earlier blog on it as well…”


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