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The Open Group's New Open Source Strategy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thinking-caps-on dept.

Bruce Perens writes "The Open Group hasn't always had the best reputation in the Open Source community, mostly because of their handling of Motif, which remained proprietary for much too long. But there's no arguing with the success of our community, and now the Open Group leadership understands that their organization must be fully involved in Open Source... or it's time for them to change their name. To that end, the Open Group contracted me to develop an Open Source strategy for their organization. The draft strategy has been published and they are requesting comment. - Bruce"

3 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Motif? by TheViffer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Motif Faq

    Subject: 2)* Is the Motif source code publically available?
    [Last modified: Jan 02]

    Answer: On May 15, 2000 the Open Group released the Motif source code for
    Motif 2.1, using a public license, to the Open Source community. On January
    29, 2002, Open Motif 2.2 was released.

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    -- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
  2. Re:Is Open Source Good for All of Our Members? by Quill_28 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need to re-read the GPL manifesto. You are under the assumption that the GPL is around to help people.

  3. Re:Is Open Source Good for All of Our Members? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Informative
    According to European and US economic data, a minority of software jobs are connected with retail software. Most software is not written to be sold. Instead, software is a cost-center within a company that does something else for its profit-center. Internal software is often a non-differentiating (doesn't make your company different from the competition) but necessary. This is all perfect for Open Source collaboration.

    So, to the question "will Open Source kill my job?", the answer is generally "no". India will kill your job (well, those of you who are not in India). And I don't know what you should do about that.

    Bruce

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    Bruce Perens.