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[News] Bruce Perens Foresaw the Divisive Novell Deal Back in 1999

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

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| Efforts to hurt us from inside are the most dangerous. I think we'll
| also see more attempts to dilute the definition of Open Source to
| include partially-free products, as we saw with the /Qt/ library in
| KDE before Troll Tech saw the light and released an Open Source
| license. Microsoft and others could hurt us by releasing a lot of
| software that's just free enough to attract users without having the
| full freedoms of Open Source. It's conceivable that they could kill
| off development of some categories of Open Source software by releasing
| a "good enough," "almost-free-enough" solution. However, the strong
| reaction against the KDE project before the /Qt/ library went fully
| Open Source bodes poorly for similar efforts by MS and its ilk.
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