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Has open source sold out?
Posted on January 25th, 2008 at 7:13 amBill Snyder
As open source goes mainstream, big commercial software companies reap as much revenue as scrappy independents
Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success? A provocative new study by a longtime software analyst suggests that the giants of the commercial software world are cashing in on the popularity of open source and becoming the dominant force in what was once called the free software movement.
Source: Info World
Technorati Tags: IBM, Open Source, Oracle, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems
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