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How Open Does Open Source Need to be?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-no-pleasing-some-people dept.

mjhuot writes "Doug MacEachern, CTO of Hyperic and creator of mod_perl, responds to criticism by Tarus Balog, a maintainer of OpenNMS, that his company's recent open source announcement is nothing but a marketing ploy. It is starting the debate on whether or not just releasing some code qualifies an application as 'open source.'"

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  1. Um, use the definition, will ya? by Knuckles · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's really easy to know whether "releasing some code" qualifies: read the definition

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  2. Open Office? by jbeaupre · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe it used to be called Star Office (and still is), created by a German company and bought by Sun. Someone is sure to correct me.

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