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Silicon.com: CollabNet: Bringing Open Source to the Rest of Us

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 17, 2004

“While allegiance to either open-source or proprietary software
is still so often a religious debate, CollabNet serves as an
example of a company that’s benefiting from embracing the best of
both worlds.

“Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO, told silicon.com in a recent
interview that from the beginning the company’s mission ‘was not
specifically about releasing software under the GPL… but about
taking what works about open source to everybody…'”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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