Smearing Free Software is a Terrible Business/Marketing Strategy

Written By
RS
Roy Schestowitz
Apr 22, 2010

“Jive Software retreats from ‘dumb mistake’ on open source,”
says this blog from Oregon’s press. It relates to this earlier
report about Jive taking shots at Drupal and Liferay, only to be
exposed and denounced.

“I’m a little late to this tale, but wanted to note the little
spat that broke out last week between Portland’s Jive Software and
the open source community.”

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RS

Roy Schestowitz

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