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Corporations Getting Into The Open Source Spirit

Posted by timothy on from the defuse-use-abuse-reuse-infuse dept.

Anonymous writes "Some bastions of capitalism are getting into the open-source spirit -- not only using the software, but contributing code fixes and other mods, according to an article in today's Computerworld."

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  1. Motivated Self Interest by defaulthtm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The most interesting part of this is the reason Merril Lynch gave as to why they posted patches back. They wanted to have a seat at the development table and did not want to have to maintain a fork of the product forever. Certainly not a RMS view of OSS, but one that makes more sense (and dollars) in the long run.

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