“What’s in a name? Back in the days of the Gingrich revolution,
the nastiest label you could pin on a politician was ‘liberal.’ And
now that open source has become an essential technology, the
quickest way to get a rise out of an open source executive (and to
get flamed on dozens of blogs) is to say his or her company is
‘commercial.’“No matter what you call them, open source companies have been
steadily integrating parts of the hated commercial software
subscription model into their business. First it was support, and
now it is software access. Say it ain’t so,
Linus…”
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