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Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?

Posted by Zonk on from the argh-i've-got-a-quarter-in-my-eye dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IBM, Sun, Novell, and Red Hat all have a very significant open source element to their businesses. In addition to these juggernauts, there is growing investment in various open source models. Will money flowing into open source destroy its roots? Mark Hinkle just posted an editorial asking the questions Is Commercialization Killing Open Source? in which he comments on 'opensville' and gives some actual investment data, and a lot of insight into the growing trend in 'open source commercialization'. Is there such a thing as 'too much money' when it comes to developing software?"

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  1. Re:Probably. by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's such a thing as a useful wikipedia link?

    Sure there is, though as I write this, its utility is questionable...

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