By: Adam Jacob
Nobody is arguing that a world without CLAs isn’t a more convenient world with a lower barrier to entry. It most obviously is that. But there are a couple of flaws in your argument. The first is that...
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WebKit has been an odd route to be sure… the early history at least was far from an open source project. I don’t have enough knowledge to talk about how it operates now though.
View ArticleBy: Gustavo Noronha
Apple has been a shining example of company whose origin is pretty much rooted in a closed environment and which has nevertheless created thriving, open projects like the WebKit project. There’s stuff...
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The problem with going to all the effort of signing the paperwork? You then still have to fix your code. You’ve just spent a whole bunch of time to get to the point of then spending a whole bunch of...
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Although Apache was big before there was Apache foundation, GNU was kind of the start of everything and gained momentum that way and OpenStack is yet to prove widely successful in the marketplace...
View ArticleBy: Henrik Ingo
This is part of the problem, yet we shouldn’t forget that GNU, Apache and OpenStack are wildly successful even if they do require your signature on an agreement. Personally I think there are many...
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