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When Is Open Source Not That Open Source?
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| According to Ts'o, the difference between organic and non-organic is related
| to how much influence a single corporation has in the development of an open
| source product. The broader the developer community around a project and the
| lower the barrier to contributing, the more organic it is. Citing Linux,
| Apache, Mozilla, and Eclipse among those in the organic open source camp,
| Ts'o singled out OpenSolaris as a prime example of non-organic open source.
| In fact, he objected to "Sun claiming that Solaris is just like Linux because
| it's open source"--a characterization that seemed to inspire his interest in
| asserting these definitions.
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http://blog.devx.com/2008/07/when-is-open-source-not-that-o.html
MySQL: Back to Its Roots via Sun
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| When Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) acquired open source database vendor
| MySQL for $1 billion, MySQL's community held its breath over how the new
| ownership might impact their community.
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| During an on-stage discussion at OSCON, the Open Source Convention by
| technology publisher O'Reilly, Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL AB, and Brian
| Aker, the director of technology for MySQL, set the record straight.
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| "My first reaction when we got acquired was -- thank god we didn't go
| public," Widenius said. Prior to the acquisition, MySQL had been on a path
| toward an initial public offering that Widenius thought would have bad for
| MySQL in the long run, as the company might have corrupted its ideals in
| order to show profits to shareholders.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3760831/MySQL+Back+to+Its+Roots+Via+Sun.htm
MySQL's roots are actually proprietary, just like the Linux kernel in its very
early days.
Recent:
OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
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| OpenSolaris, Sun’s open-source take on its Solaris operating system, has
| finally arrived. Some people, like Jason Perlow at ZDNet think that this is
| great news and that Sun’s latest operating system will give Linux a real
| challenge.
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| Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. I’m inclined to doubt it simply because
| OpenSolaris has failed to develop a strong developer community. For more on
| that see Ted Ts’o, noted Linux developer and CTO of the Linux Foundation,
| blog posting, What Sun was trying to do with Open Solaris. T’so wasn’t
| playing OS religious wars, he was pointing out that while “OpenSolaris has
| been released under an Open Source license,” it doesn’t have “an Open Source
| development community.”
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| That’s a real problem. OpenSolaris’ biggest trouble is that while it’s taken
| three years for OpenSolaris to reach a point where general techie sorts will
| get it a try, the Linux distributors, especially Red Hat, Novell/SUSE and
| Ubuntu, has been moving in strength both to the public and to enterprise
| customers.
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http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/opensolaris-arrives-just-to-die/
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