“To open source or not to open source … for more and more
companies, this is no longer the question.“
“And for more and more people, seeing companies open source (or
better yet, GPL) their code is less a reason for sneering “itzabout
time!” and more an opportunity for hackers to work with, fix, and
enhance technologies that might have been completely inaccessible
under the pre-open source rules of engagement.”
“For example, Quicknet Technologies Inc., a company that
specializes in marketing Internet telephony products to
organizations and businesses with relatively low-density Internet
telephony needs, has recently released the source code for its
Linux device drivers. The source code is available now from
Quicknet’s web site. This code also has been included in the most
recent pre-patch (2.2.14pre15) by Alan Cox.”