“Popularity may be a menace as well as a benefit for the open
source software movement, according to an analyst at Forrester
Research in Boston, Mass.“In a report titled ‘Vendors Refine Their Open Source
Strategies/The Risk of Subverting Open Source Freedoms Mounts,’
Senior Analyst Michael Goulde cautions the open source community
about the corrupting influence profit-seeking software players
could have on its ecosystem…”