Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 28, 2007 @11:37AM 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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Wasn't the right kind of licence going to fix this by gelfling · 2007-04-28 11:47 · Score: 1, Redundant

The author's problem stems from takers no givers. The problem of the common green where everyone takes and no one gives back. But wasn't the right kind of licensing supposed to address this? Aren't companies supposed to be prohibited from doing this?