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Lutris, Close Source, And The Open Source Community

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-a-jilted-wife dept.

sohp writes "Back in mid-September Slashdot ran the story "Lutris Closes Enhydra Source" regarding that company's decision to retract its open source licensing terms. Now George C. Hawkins has reconstructed the pre-closed source reality and discusses it at How Lutris betrayed the Open Source Community . Short summary: blaming Sun was a smokescreen. Interesting use of web archive sites, too." There's definitely a lot of strong feelings against Lutris in the linked piece, but there's also a lot of validity as well.

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  1. Lutris? Closed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    OK.

    Seriously.

    How hard can it be to expect that the SUBJECT LINES in a story get at least a second look to make sure that there are not typos in the FIRST TWO WORDS?

  2. Oh well. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Turned out to be shareware I guess. Other databases out there you know.