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Ask Sam Greenblatt About CA's $1 Million Open Source Prize
Several large companies have recently released previously proprietary software into the open source wilds. The splashiest announcement along these lines was from CA, who opened their Ingres r3database -- and offered up to $1 million in incentives for development of Ingres migration tools. For those of you who want to earn a piece of that money, and for all of us who have questions about how and why CA is cozying up to open source developers, the person with the answers is Sam Greenblatt, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of CA's Linux Technology Group. So ask, already. We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Sam by email, and post his answers as soon as we get them back.
With open source you have another way of independence, is not just cost (that for many is the easier point to understand) but for freedom of doing with it whatever you want, adapt it to fit more to your actual needs, be able to check it for intentional and accidental "misbehaviours", and even be able to contribute to the growing of it. Also is a good plataform for collaboration at another level between and inside governments and other organizations.
Probably that question was answered a lot of times before, a quick search in google should give a more authoritative answer.
Whilst this is a fair question (although not specifically targetted at Greeenblatt), there are numerous reasons why old software can't be simply opened up. A lot of software contains licensed 3rd-party code, and to be able to open up your source would require a thorough audit to head off any SCO-style shitfest.
Because companies don't want older versions of their software competing with the most current release. Not to mention that many closed source apps rely on licensing third party technology and to open their stuff up would open up stuff they do not own the rights to.
a better answer for you, from the rules. An OSI compatible license is required, "without 'reciprocal' or 'copyleft' requirements". (emphasis mine)
interesting
If not -- moderators, this is precisely the sort of stupid, snippy, snotty question that always gets modded up for these interviews but contributes nothing.
That was Network Associates. The commercial arm of PGP got spun-off into their own company, PGP Corporation.
Darwin isn't a very good example...
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