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What open source is not

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Gordon Haff
Aug 14, 2019

From its early days, the availability of source code was one of the defining characteristics of open source software. Indeed, Brian Behlendorf of the Apache web server project, an early open source software success, favored “source code available software.”

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Gordon Haff

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