IT Manager’s Journal: Openstructure: A Call for Open Source Reform

“One of the many things that the movement has struggled with is
to define how money is to be made from open source. An obvious way
is for companies to offer paid support services for open source
products–there are plenty of examples of this. But the
dual-licensing model popularized by Trolltech, MySQL, and Sleepycat
is becoming increasingly prevelant. While I think this is a bad
sign for open source, it is also the natural progression of the
technology industry in which a new category of brand names have
sprung up to create an effective monopoly of the movement.

“While open source developers continue to code away, their
movement is being reconfigured and dominated by the commercial open
source companies…”

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